Benga | |
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bɛŋga | |
Native to | Equatorial Guinea, Gabon |
Ethnicity | Benga people |
Native speakers | 5,400 (2004–2011)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | bng |
Glottolog | beng1282 |
A.34 [2] | |
ELP | Benga |
Benga is a Bantu language spoken by the Benga people of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It has a dialectal variation called Bapuku. Benga speakers inhabit a small coastal portion of Río Muni, the Cape of San Juan, suburban enclaves of Rio Benito and Bata, the islands of Corisco, Small Elobey and Great Elobey.