Ngbee is an extinct
Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
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of uncertain affiliation. Guthrie assigned to the
Nyali cluster,
''Ethnologue'' classifies it as a
Nyali language.
[ ''Glottolog'' places it near the ]Ngendan languages
Boan (Buan, ''Ababuan'') is a proposed intermediate group of Bantu languages coded Zones C and D in Guthrie's classification.McMaster, Mary Allen. 1988. ''Patterns of Interaction: A comparative ethnolinguistic perspective on the Uele region of Za ...
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References
Bantu languages
Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nyali languages
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