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Gbaya languages

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The Gbaya languages, also known as Gbaya-Manza-Ngbaka, are a family of perhaps a dozen languages spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic and across the border in Cameroon, with one language, Ngbaka, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and several small languages in the Republic of the Congo. Many go by the ethnic name Gbaya, though the largest, with over a million speakers, is called Ngbaka, a name it shares with the unrelated Ngbaka languages of the Ubangian family.

Facts
Region
Western Central African Republic and Cameroon, with outliers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo 1
Proto-Language Status
Proto-Gbaya reconstructed by Moñino (2010) 1
Sources
1. Gbaya languages - Wikipedia
  • Introduction
    spoken mainly in the western Central African Republic and across the border in Cameroon
  • Languages
    Moñino (2010) reconstructed proto-Gbaya and proposes the following family tree
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