Bangala (language)
| Bangala (Ngala) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan | |
| speaker | 2 to 3.5 million second language speakers | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Recognized minority / regional language in |
 Democratic Republic of Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
bxg |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Bangala or Ngala is a Bantu language that is spoken in the northeastern part of the Congo , in the south of Sudan , and in the far west of Uganda .
It is basically a different form of the lingala , and is used by peoples of different mother tongues as a lingua franca , but less often as a mother tongue. The estimated number of speakers of the language varies between 2 and 3.5 million. It is spoken in the eastern and northeastern areas, where Lingala is also spoken.
history
As the Lingala language spread to the west and south, its vocabulary was increasingly replaced by languages of other ethnic groups and regions, and it became more than an interim language (a language made up of elements of two or more languages) and was considered a different language classified - Bangala. Bangala's vocabulary differs depending on the native language of its speakers.
Around the 1980s, with the popularity and increased accessibility of the lingala in modern music, young people in large towns and cities began to adopt so much of the lingala that their Bangala increasingly assumed the status of a dialect rather than another language.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bangala Language-museum.com sample Bangala text
- ^ Ethnologue report for Bangala