Ngemba | |
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Geographic distribution: |
Grasslands of western Cameroon |
Linguistic classification: | Niger–Congo |
Subdivisions: |
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Ethnologue code: | 256-16 |
The Ngemba languages are a dialect cluster of Grassfields Bantu languages of the western grasslands of Cameroon.
The languages are Awing, Bambili-Bambui, Bafut, Beba, Bamukumbit, Kpati, Mendankwe-Nkwen, Mankon, Mbatu, Chomba, Akum Ngemba, Pinyin.
The name Ngemba comes from the local pidgin nge mba "said that".