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Preferred term

bxgBangala  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Bangala, or Ngala, is a Bantu language spoken in the northeast part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in South Sudan, and the extreme western part of Uganda. A divergent form of Lingala, it's used as a lingua franca by people with different languages and rarely as a first language. The estimated number of speakers varies between 2 and 3.5 million. It is spoken to the east and northeast of the area where Lingala is spoken.

Entry terms

  • Bangala language

ISO 639-3 code

  • bxg

Notation

  • bxg

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bxg

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