Myene | |
Nativename: | Omyene |
States: | Gabon |
Region: | Ogooue-Maritime Province, Middle Ogooue Province |
Ethnicity: | Myene (Mpongwe, Adyumba, Nkomi, Galwa), Bongo |
Speakers: | 45,000 |
Date: | 2007 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone B) |
Fam6: | Kele–Tsogo? |
Fam7: | Tsogo? |
Dia1: | Mpongwe |
Dia2: | Galwa |
Dia3: | Nkomi |
Iso3: | mye |
Glotto: | myen1241 |
Glottorefname: | Myene |
Guthrie: | 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,[1] though Nurse & Philippson (2003) place it in with the Tsogo languages (B.30). The more distinctive varieties are Mpongwe (Pongoué), Galwa (Galloa), and Nkomi.