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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Sudan > Mangayat

Mangayat

A language of Sudan

ISO 639-3myj

Population  400 (1987 SIL).
Region  South, West Bahr el Ghazal, Mangayat, 30 km southeast of Raga; some in Raga.
Language map  Sudan
Alternate names   Buga, Mangaya, Mongaiyat
Classification  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Adamawa-Ubangi, Ubangi, Sere-Ngbaka-Mba, Sere, Feroge-Mangaya
Language use  Many also use Gbaya [krs] (Kresh) or Sudanese Spoken Arabic [apd].
Comments  They call themselves ‘Bug’.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ARENSEN, Jonathan E., author. 1983. Sticks and Straw: Comparative House Forms in Southern Sudan and Northern Kenya.  Available for purchase

BILAL, Clement Murba Wau, author. 2004. "The Adamawa - Ubangi languages in Sudan."