Donga language

Dong
Donga
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State, Adamawa State
Native speakers	5,000 (1998)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Dakoid Gaa–Dong Dong
Language codes
ISO 639-3	doh
Glottolog	dong1293[2]

Dong, or Donga, is a poorly documented language of Nigeria. Though clearly Niger–Congo, is difficult to classify; Blench proposes that it is one of the Dakoid languages, closest to Gaa.

References

1. Dong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Donga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Blench, Roger (n.d.) 'The Dɔ̃ (Dong) language and its affinities'. Ms. circulated at the 27th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, 1994.
• Blench, Roger (2008) 'Prospecting proto-Plateau'. Manuscript.
• Blench, Roger (2011) 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.