Molengue Language

The Molengue language (also called Balengue, Molendji) is a Bantu language of southern Equatorial Guinea, spoken between Bata and the Gabon border near the coast. The speakers have come under increasing Fang influence. The Ethnologue describes it as a member of the B subgroup of Northwest Bantu, while Echegaray is more specific, saying that it is linguistically a member of the Sheke group (B21 of Guthrie's Bantu subclassification):
"Los balengues - lingisticamente al menos - estn emparentados con el grupo sheke en general, y especialmente con itemus y nvikos." (p. 51)
Echegaray lists their main settlements as being located south of Bata between Punta Nguba and the Benito River, as well as three before the Ndote River, and a few further south or inland.

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Bibliography

  • Carlos Gonzalez Echegaray. Estudios Guineos: Vol. II. Madrid:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas 1959.
  • Igor Cusack. "Hispanic and Bantu Inheritance, Trauma, Dispersal and Return: Some Contributions to a Sense of National Identity in Equatorial Guinea". Nations and Nationalism, Volume 5 Issue 2 Page 207 - April 1999.
  • Quilis, Antonio y Celia Casado-Fresnillo. 1995. La lengua espaola en Guinea Ecuatorial. Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia.

 

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