Nsongo language

Not to be confused with the Songo (Nsong, Ntsuo) variety of Yansi.
Songo
Nsongo
Native to Angola
Native speakers
(50,000 cited 1978)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nsx
Glottolog nson1238[2]
H.24[3]

Songo (Nsongo) is a Bantu language of Angola. It is similar to North Mbundu, and is often considered a dialect of that language. The true relationship may be a regional influence since it has been suggested that Nsongo and Teke, and it relatives, are close (Nurse 2003).

References

  1. Songo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nsongo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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