Ongamo (or Ngasa) is an endangered or extinct Eastern Nilotic language of Tanzania. It is related to the Maa languages, but it is more distantly related to them than the Maa languages are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with Maasai, 59% with Samburu, 58% with Camus. Many of its speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language.

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  • Ongamo (or Ngasa) is an endangered or extinct Eastern Nilotic language of Tanzania. It is related to the Maa languages, but it is more distantly related to them than the Maa languages are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with Maasai, 59% with Samburu, 58% with Camus. Many of its speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language.
  • L'ongamo (ou ngasa) est une langue nilo-saharienne de la branche des langues nilotiques parlée dans en Tanzanie, à l'extrême Nord-Est du Kilimandjaro. La langue est menacée est n'est plus parlée que les plus âgés des Ongamo. Ces derniers vivent parmi les Chaga, un peuple bantou qui les nomment βaŋgasa.
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  • Ongamo (or Ngasa) is an endangered or extinct Eastern Nilotic language of Tanzania. It is related to the Maa languages, but it is more distantly related to them than the Maa languages are to each other. Ongamo has 60% of lexical similarity with Maasai, 59% with Samburu, 58% with Camus. Many of its speakers have shifted to Chagga, a dominant regional Bantu language.
  • L'ongamo (ou ngasa) est une langue nilo-saharienne de la branche des langues nilotiques parlée dans en Tanzanie, à l'extrême Nord-Est du Kilimandjaro. La langue est menacée est n'est plus parlée que les plus âgés des Ongamo. Ces derniers vivent parmi les Chaga, un peuple bantou qui les nomment βaŋgasa.
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  • Ongamo language
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