Ongamo language 1933925 143366427 2007-07-08T21:28:12Z Enlil Ninlil 442600 {{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. {{ns-lang-stub}} [[Category:Languages of Tanzania]] [[Category:Eastern Nilotic languages]] [[Category:Endangered languages of Africa]] [[br:Ongamoeg]] [[Category:Language articles without language code]]