Amélia Arlete Vieira Dias Rodrigues Mingas (17 December 1940 – 12 August 2019) was an Angolan linguist and teacher.
She was the daughter of André "Mongone" Rodrigues Mingas and Antónia Diniz de Aniceto Vieira Dias.
Her father was a nationalist and anti-colonialist activist, as was her maternal uncle Liceu Vieira Dias, who was also one of the founders of Angolan pop music.
[5] Between 2006 and 2010, Mingas was the executive director of the International Institute of the Portuguese Language, based in Praia, Cape Verde.
She published Interferência do Kimbundu no Português Falado em Lwanda, as well as three research papers on the Kongo language of Iwoyo, spoken in Cabinda.