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Ongamo or Ngas is an endangered or extinct Eastern Nilotic language of the Ngas of Nigeria. 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.

ISO 639-3 code
nsg
family
Eastern Nilotic languages, Eastern Sudanic languages
spoken in
Tanzania

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