Gbaya languages

Gbaya
Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka
Geographic
distribution
Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Proto-languageProto-Gbaya
Language codes
ISO 639-2 / 5gba
Glottologgbay1279

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 languages with few speakers in the Republic of the Congo. Many of the languages go by the ethnic name Gbaya, though the largest, with over a million speakers, is called Ngbaka, a name shared with the Ngbaka languages of the Ubangian family.