Ngadha language

Ngadha
Ngadha
Bahasa Ngaʼda
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Flores
Native speakers	(ca. 65,000 cited 1994–1995)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern MP Sumba–Flores Ende–Manggarai Central Flores Ngadha–Soʼa Ngadha; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; nxg – Ngadʼa [sic]; nea – Eastern Ngadʼa [sic]
Glottolog	ngad1261

Ngadha (IPA: [ŋaᶑa], previously spelled Ngaʼda) is an Austronesian language, one of six languages spoken in the central stretch of the Indonesian island of Flores. From west to east these languages are Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio, and Palu'e. These languages form the proposed Central Flores group of the Sumba–Flores languages, according to Blust (2009).

Ngadha is one of the few languages with a retroflex implosive /ᶑ /.

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