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Ngombe, or ''Lingombe'', is a
Ngombe, or ''Lingombe'', is a Bantu language
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀) are a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, Eastern africa and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages.
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spoken by about 150,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In general, native speakers live on either side of the Congo river, and its many tributaries; more specifically, Équateur Province, Mongala District and in areas neighboring it (Sud Ubangi and Équateur districts). Ngombe is written in Latin script.
The deities of the Ngombe include the supreme creator Akongo Akongo is a Creator God in African mythology. He is worshipped by the Ngombe people of the Congo.
''The Christian faith and non-Christian religions'' explains that Akongo "is not impersonal, like Mana: indeed the people make a clear distinction ...
and the ancestor goddess Mbokomu
Mbokomu is a town and ward in the Moshi Rural district of the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania
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Ngombe includes several dialects in addition to Ngombe proper (Ŋgɔmbɛ). These are ''Wiindza-Baali'', ''Doko'' (Dɔkɔ), and ''Binja'' (also rendered ''Binza'', ''Libindja'', or ''Libinja''). The latter is not the same as the Binja/Binza language. Binja dialect is primarily spoken in Orientale Province and Aketi Territory, and shares about three-quarters of its linguistic characteristics with standard Ngombe. Maho (2009) lists Doko as a distinct language in a separate group.
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Buja-Ngombe languages Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo {{DRCongo-stub