| Gbaya | |
|---|---|
| Gbaya–Manza–Ngbaka | |
| Geographic distribution | Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo? |
| Proto-language | Proto-Gbaya |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 / 5 | gba |
| Glottolog | gbay1279 |
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.