Ngungwel
| Ngungwel | ||
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Spoken in |
Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 45,000 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Ngungwel (also Engungwel, Ngangoulou, Ngungulu and Nordost-Teke) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 45,000 Angungwel members in the Republic of the Congo .
It is common in the Plateaux region in the Gamboma district .
classification
Ngungwel forms the Teke group with the languages Tchitchege , Teke , Teke-Eboo , Teke-Fuumu , Teke-Kukuya , Teke-Laali , Teke-Nzikou , Teke-Tege , Teke-Tsaayi , Teke-Tyee and Yaka . According to the classification of Malcolm Guthrie , Ngungwel belongs to the Guthrie Zone B70.
89% of the vocabulary has similarities with the vocabulary of Teke-Eboo, 81% with that of Teke-Kukuya, 77% with that of Teke-Tege, 76% with that of Teke-Tsaayi and Mbere , 75% with that of Teke -Tyee, 68% with that of Teke-Laali and 61% with that of Yaka.
Ngungwel has the dialect Mpu (also Mpumpum).