Ngasa language

Ngas
Ongamo
Native toTanzania
EthnicityNgasa people
Extinct2012[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nsg
Glottologngas1238
ELPNgasa

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.

  1. ^ "Ngasa". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 November 2023.