The Ngas Language (Shik Ngas)

Fundamentals of Grammar - Texts - Dictionary

by Herrmann Jungraithmayr

Book cover: The Ngas Language (Shik Ngas)

Extent: 300 pages

Publisher: Dietrich Reimer Verlag

Subjects: African Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Sprache und Oralitat in Afrika

Series volume number: 28

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(March 2016)

ISBN: 9783496015550

Price: $99.00

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The Ngas (Angas) language is spoken by some 400.000 people on the southern escarpment of the central Nigerian Plateau (Plateau State). The historically innovative language of the Chadic Angas-Sura group together with the neighbouring more archaic Ron languages are the southwesternmost representatives of the Afroasiatic/Hamitosemitic phylum to which also Arabic and Ancient Egyptian belong. Ngas, a tone language with three levels, has still preserved the classical pronominal system. The book presents a detailed outline of the grammar and a Ngas-English dictionary of some 2.000 lexical entries.

  • By (author) Herrmann Jungraithmayr