Native to Angola Recognised minority
language in Angola | Native speakers 100,000 (2013) ISO 639-3 None (mis) | |
Region northeast Cuanza Sul Province Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid
Bantu
(transitional between zones Zone H and Zone R)
Ngoya | ||
Ngoya, also known as Pala (Kibala, Ipala), is a newly recognized language of Angola that since ca. 2010 has been used for national radio broadcasts. It had previously been considered a dialect of Kimbundu without any linguistic evidence, and appears to be transitional between Kimbundu and Umbundu.
Nyoya is spoken in Cuanza Sul between Songo to the north and Umbundu to the south.
The name "Ngoya" is an Umbundu word meaning "savage". The endonym is Pala, which with the noun-class-7 prefix is Íipàlà. It is frequently rendered as Kibala, which is the Kimbundu form.
References
Ngoya language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA