Myene | |
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Omyene | |
Native to | Gabon |
Region | Ogooue-Maritime Province, Middle Ogooue Province |
Ethnicity | Myene (Mpongwe, Nkomi, Galwa), Bongo Pygmies |
Native speakers
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45,000 (2007) |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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Glottolog | myen1241 |
B.11 |
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, though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (Pongoué), Galwa (Galloa), and Nkomi.