Ngemba languages
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For the ISO language name Ngemba, see Mankon language.
| Ngemba | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Grasslands of western Cameroon |
| Linguistic classification: |
Niger–Congo
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| Subdivisions: |
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| Ethnologue code: | 17-542 |
The Ngemba languages are a dialect cluster of Grassfields Bantu languages of the western grasslands of Cameroon.
The languages are Awing (Mbwe'wi)–Bamukumbit, Bafut–Beba, Kpati, Mbili-Mbui, Mendankwe-Nkwen–Mankon–Mundum (Ngemba), Pinyin.
The name Ngemba comes from the local pidgin nge mba "said that".[citation needed]
External links
- Map of Ngemba language(s) from the LL-Map project
- Information on Ngemba language(s) from the MultiTree project
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