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.
^Benga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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...
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in Swahili or native languages, like Kalenjin though radio will generally not play music in one of the ethnic languages. Benga music has been popular...
the United States. The most well known among Verner's activities was Ota Benga, the sole survivor of his clan, who Verner brought to the United States...
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Bengalanguage, proving incomprehensible for the actual people who perform them and listen to them. Often however, the tunes are sung in the language...
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is classified under the Maa languages in the Eastern Nilotic language branch. It is closely related to the Samburu language (between 89% and 94% lexical...
The letter is used in the scientific alphabet of the languages of Gabon used for Pinji, Benga, Barama, Galwa, Viya, Kande, Kaning'i, Lumbu, Myene, Ndumu...
or Playeros ("Beach People" in Spanish): Combes, Bujebas, Balengues and Bengas on the mainland and small islands and a Fernandino community of Krio descended...
anthropologist, and head of the New York Zoological Society—had Congolese pygmy Ota Benga put on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City alongside apes and other...
the originators of a number of popular music genres including benga and ohangla. Benga is one of Africa's most popular genres. The present day homeland...
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size in insular humans. Koro-pok-guru, small people in Ainu folklore Ota Benga, man taken as slave and zoo exhibit to the U.S. Vazimba, possible first...
band. He sang mostly in Dholuo and Swahili languages. He is known as a pioneering contributor to the Benga music genre. During his long career he released...
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album by Three 6 Mafia, 1997 Chapter II (Ashanti album), 2003 Chapter II (Benga album), 2013 Chapter II: Family Reunion, an album by Mo Thugs, 1998 Chapter...
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