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.

Notes

  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.
  1. ^ le myènè en ligne sur : 'awanawintche.com', le myene en ligne : proverbes, contes, cours en audio mp3, histoires, rites et légendes o'myènè.

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Languages of the Pygmies
Languages of Gabon
Narrow Bantu languages (Zones A–B) (by Guthrie classification)
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