Ngiti language

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The Ngiti language is a Central Sudanic language spoken by the Ngiti people in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ngiti language canonical 2

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Statements (36)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Sudanic language
language
natural language
country Democratic Republic of the Congo
ethnicGroup Ngiti people
family Central Sudanic
hasAlternativeName Ndruna
Ngiti-Ndruna
South Lendu
linked to: Southern Lendu
hasEndonym Ndruna
hasEthnologueEntry Ngiti
linked to: Ngiti-Ndruna
hasGlottocode ngit1238
hasGlottologName Ngiti
linked to: Ngiti-Ndruna
hasLinguasphereCode 05-NEA-aa
hasLinguisticClassification Central Sudanic > Eastern > Lenduic
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone language
hasStatus regional language
hasWordOrder SOV
isDocumentedIn linguistic fieldwork studies
isMinorityLanguageIn Democratic Republic of the Congo
ISO639-3 niy
isRelatedTo Lendu language
isSpokenInContextOf Ituri conflict region
isSpokenNear Lendu language
isUsedFor local trade communication
oral communication
traditional storytelling
languageFamily Nilo-Saharan languages
nativeSpeakers Ngiti people
region northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
spokenIn Ituri Province
subfamily Eastern Central Sudanic
usedBy Ngiti community
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lendu language neighboringLanguages Ngiti language
Lendu-Bali closelyRelatedTo Ngiti language