The area was inhabited primarily by Bantu societies, especially Omvang, Makaa and Kaka as well as the Ubangi-speaking Gbaya.
Greenberg (1963) classified the then-little-known Ubangian languages as Niger–Congo and placed them within the Adamawa languages as "Eastern Adamawa".
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