Myene language

Myene
Omyene
Native toGabon
RegionOgooue-Maritime Province, Middle Ogooue Province
EthnicityMyene (Mpongwe, Adyumba, Nkomi, Galwa), Bongo
Native speakers
45,000 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • Mpongwe
  • Galwa
  • Nkomi
Language codes
ISO 639-3mye
Glottologmyen1241
B.11[2]

Myene is a cluster of closely related Bantu varieties spoken in Gabon by about 46,000 people. It is perhaps the most divergent of the Narrow Bantu languages,[3] though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (Pongoué), Galwa (Galloa), and Nkomi.

  1. ^ Myene at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ^ Bantu Classification Archived 2012-06-24 at the Wayback Machine, Ehret, 2009.