Benga language

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The Benga language is a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family traditionally spoken by the Benga people in coastal areas of Equatorial Guinea and nearby islands.

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Label Occurrences
Benga language canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantu language
Niger-Congo language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Bulu language
Fang language
Kwasio language
continent Africa
country Equatorial Guinea
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Benga people NERFINISHED
family Niger–Congo languages
surface form: Niger-Congo
glottologCode beng1282
glottologName Benga
hasAlternativeName Benga
Benga of Equatorial Guinea
hasAncestor Proto-Bantu language
Proto-Niger–Congo
surface form: Proto-Niger-Congo language
hasFeature grammatical gender via noun classes
noun class system
rich verbal morphology
iso639-3 bng
languageFamilyBranch Atlantic–Congo languages
surface form: Atlantic–Congo

Bantu zone A
surface form: Bantu (Zone A)

Benue–Congo languages
surface form: Benue–Congo

Southern Bantoid
languageShiftTowards Fang
Spanish
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
morphologyType agglutinative
region Equatorial Guinea
coastal areas of Equatorial Guinea
islands near Equatorial Guinea
spokenBy Benga people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Bioko Island
Corisco Island
Continental Region of Equatorial Guinea
surface form: Litoral Province, Equatorial Guinea

small coastal communities of Equatorial Guinea
spokenNear Gabon border
statusInEquatorialGuinea minority language
subfamily Bantu languages
surface form: Bantu
subfamilyOf Bantu languages
usedIn local trade communication
oral literature
traditional Benga cultural practices
wordOrder SVO
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Benga language
Description of subject: The Benga language is a Bantu language of the Niger-Congo family traditionally spoken by the Benga people in coastal areas of Equatorial Guinea and nearby islands.

Referenced by (1)

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

Corisco hasLanguageHistoricallySpoken Benga language