Ngbee language

Extinct Bantu language of DR Congo
Ngbee
Lingbee
Native toDemocratic Republic of the Congo
EthnicityMangbele
ExtinctBy the 1960s[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3jgb
Glottologngbe1238
D.336[2]

Ngbee is an extinct Bantu language of uncertain affiliation. Guthrie assigned to the Nyali cluster,[2] Ethnologue classifies it as a Nyali language.[1] Glottolog places it near the Ngendan languages.

References

  1. ^ a b Ngbee at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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