There are two populations: Bangando proper (Bàngàndò), in Cameroon, and Ngombe (Ba(n)gando-Ngombe, Ngombe-Kaka) clustered around Mambéré-Kadéï Prefecture across the border in the Central African Republic.
Language status levels can be derived from the Ethnologue Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale.
)[4] A very similar variety, Ngombe, is spoken in the Central African Republic between Gamboula (on the Cameroonian border) and Berbérati.
Berry, S.H Irvine and E.G. Hunt in their book Indigenous Cognition: Functioning in Cultural Context.
Berry, S.H Irvine and E.G. Hunt further develop upon the lack of education indigenous speakers receive in order to thrive outside of the Bangando community.