Ngie language

Ngie
Pronunciation ŋɡiə
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
37,000 (2001)[1]
Dialects
  • Mengum
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ngj
Glottolog ngie1242[2]

Ngie is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. A variety called Mengum is only 56% lexically similar, and so should perhaps be considered a distinct language.

References

  1. Ngie at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngie". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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