Limba language (Cameroon)

Limba
Malimba
Spoken in  Cameroon
Ethnicity Limba
Native speakers 2,230  (2001)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 msd

Limba (Malimba) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is very closely related to Duala. Speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility with Tanga (Batanga), which they call "Old Malimba".[1] Most speak Duala as the local lingua franca.

References

  1. ^ M. Lamberty - A rapid appraisal survey of Malimba in Cameroon