Ongamo language
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{{language
|name=Ongamo
|nativename=Ngasa, {{IPA| ?}}
|familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
|states=[[Tanzania]]
|region=
|speakers=extinct
|fam2=[[Eastern Sudanic languages|Eastern Saharan]]
|fam3=[[Eastern Nilotic languages|Eastern Nilotic]]
|fam4=Lotuxo-Teso
|fam5=Lotuxo-Maa
|fam6=[[Maa languages|Maa]]
|iso2=ssa|iso3=omg}}
'''Ongamo''' (or Ngasa) is an endangered or extinct [[Eastern Nilotic languages|Eastern Nilotic]] language of [[Tanzania]]. It is related to the [[Maa languages]], but it is more distantly related to them than the Maa languages are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with [[Maasai language|Maasai]], 59% with [[Samburu language|Samburu]], 58% with [[Camus language|Camus]]. Many of its speakers have shifted to [[Chaga languages|Chagga]], a dominant regional [[Bantu languages|Bantu language]].
==References==
* Sommer, Gabriele {1992) 'A survey on language death in Africa', in Brenzinger, Matthias (ed.) ''Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa''. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 301–417.
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[[Category:Languages of Tanzania]]
[[Category:Eastern Nilotic languages]]
[[Category:Endangered languages of Africa]]
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[[Category:Language articles without language code]]