Mangayat

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Mangaya (Mangayat, Buga)

Spoken in

South Sudan
speaker 400 (1987)
Linguistic
classification
  • Ubangic
    • Seri-Mba
      • Sere
        • Feroge-Mangaya
    Mangayat
Language codes
ISO 639-3

myj

The Mangayat (also called Mangaya and Buga ) is a critically endangered Ubangic language of South Sudan . The endonym of the language is bug . The language is spoken by the Mangaya (Bug) people.

Mangayat is spoken by only about 400 inhabitants of South Sudan in the Vilayet Western Bahr el Ghazal, southeast of Raja .

Most of the speakers have now adopted the South Sudanese official language, English or Arabic , the official language under Sudanese rule.

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