Myene language

Myene
Omyene
Native to Gabon
Region Ogooue-Maritime Province, Middle Ogooue Province
Ethnicity Myene (Mpongwe, Nkomi, Galwa), Bongo Pygmies
Native speakers
45,000 (2007)[1]
Dialects
Mpongwe
Galwa
Nkomi
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mye
Glottolog myen1241[2]
B.11[3]

Myene is a cluster of closely related Bantu varieties spoken in Gabon by about 46,000 people. It is perhaps the most divergent of the Narrow Bantu languages,[4] though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (Pongoué), Galwa (Galloa), and Nkomi.

Notes

  1. Myene at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Myene". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Bantu Classification, Ehret, 2009.
  1. ^ le myènè en ligne sur : 'awanawintche.com', le myene en ligne : proverbes, contes, cours en audio mp3, histoires, rites et légendes o'myènè.

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