Endangered Languages Project - Ngasa

Ngasa

^{[aka Shaka, Ongamo,]}

Classification: Nilotic

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Shaka, Ongamo
CLASSIFICATION		Nilotic, Eastern Nilotic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		nsg
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200-300
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
2500
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"200 to 300 mostly elderly speakers."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Young people now tend to speak Chaga, a Bantu (Niger-Congo) language."

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Eastern slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro."

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
4,285
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
250 (1983). Ethnic population: 4,285 (2000).

DATE OF INFO: Speakers 1983, population 2000

PLACES: Tanzania; Kenya;

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
200
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1000
Native speakers worldwide

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

PLACES: Tanzania

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "...northeastern slopes of Kilimanjaro in the three localities Ubetu, Reha and Kahe between the valleys Makuku and Machima near the Kenyan/Tanzanian border."

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing