Lengue language
(Redirected from
Balengue language
)| Lengue | |
|---|---|
| Molengue | |
| Native to | Equatorial Guinea |
| Ethnicity | Balengue |
Native speakers | 1,000 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bxc |
| Glottolog | mole1238 |
B.221[2] | |
The Lengue language, also called Molengue, Balengue, Molendji, is a
Sheke group (B21 of Guthrie
's Bantu subclassification):
- "The Balengues – linguistically at least – are related to the Sheke group in general, and especially to Itemus and Nvikos." (p. 51)
Echegaray lists their main settlements as being located south of Bata between Punta Nguba and the Benito River, as well as three before the Ndote River, and a few further south or inland.
References
- ^ Lengue at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Carlos González Echegaray. Estudios Guineos: Vol. II. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas 1959.
- Igor Cusack. "Hispanic and Bantu Inheritance, Trauma, Dispersal and Return: Some Contributions to a Sense of National Identity in Equatorial Guinea". Nations and Nationalism, Volume 5 Issue 2 Page 207 - April 1999.
- Quilis, Antonio y Celia Casado-Fresnillo. 1995. La lengua española en Guinea Ecuatorial. Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.