| Ngas | |
|---|---|
| Ongamo | |
| Native to | Tanzania |
| Ethnicity | Ngasa people |
| Extinct | 2012[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nsg |
| Glottolog | ngas1238 |
| ELP | Ngasa |
Ongamo, or Ngas, is an extinct Eastern Nilotic language of Tanzania. It is closely related to the Maa languages, but more distantly than they are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with Maasai, Samburu, and Camus. Speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language.