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Gogo is a Bantu language (Guthrie G11) (Webbook)
Ethnologue lists the classification as: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, G, Gogo (G.10)
It is spoken in central Tanzania around Dodoma. (Webbook)
1,300,000 (1992 UBS) (Ethnologue)
No complete dialect survey is known to us. Derek Nurse writes that "Gogo is felt to have three dialects: ci-nyambwa, spoken west of Dodoma; ci-nyaugogo, spoken around Dodoma; ci-tumba, spoken east of Dodoma." (Webbook)
Nyambwa (West Gogo), Nyaugogo (Central Gogo), Tumba (East Gogo). Lexical similarity 50% with Hehe and Sangu, 48% with Kimbu, 45% with Nilamba. (Ethnologue)
Gogo is a local language. (Webbook)
Ethnologue has the following notes concerning language use: Vigorous. Used in meetings by the Anglican church.
Gogo has a Romanized orthography, although its status is unknown as of this writing. (Webbook)
Sample text in the "Language Museum" at http://www.language-museum.com/g/gogo.htm
None known of.
Dwyer, David (1997), Webbook of African Languages, http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/hiermenu.html (page on "Gogo," http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Gogo_root.html )
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Gogo," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gog
SIL International, "ISO 639 Code Tables," http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
U.S. Library of Congress, "ISO 639.2: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages: Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language," http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Wikipedia, "Gogo language," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogo_language
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