Ngoya, also known as Pala (Kibala, Ipala), is a newly recognized language of

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

that since ca. 2010 has been used for national radio broadcasts. It had previously been considered a dialect of

Kimbundu Kimbundu, a Bantu language which has sometimes been called Mbundu or North Mbundu (to distinguish it from Umbundu, sometimes called South Mbundu), is the second-most-widely-spoken Bantu language in Angola. Its speakers are concentrated in the n ...

without any linguistic evidence, and appears to be transitional between Kimbundu and

Umbundu Umbundu, or South Mbundu (autonym ''úmbúndú''), one of many Bantu languages, is the most widely-spoken autochthonous language of Angola. Its speakers are known as ''Ovimbundu'' and are an ethnic group constituting a third of Angola's populati ...

. Nyoya is spoken in Cuanza Sul between Songo to the north and Umbundu to the south. The name "Ngoya" is an Umbundu word meaning "savage". The endonym is ''Pala'', which with the noun-class-7 prefix is ''Íipàlà''. It is frequently rendered as ''Kibala'', which is the Kimbundu form.

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Bantu languages Languages of Angola {{Bantu-lang-stub