Balo language

Balo
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
 2,200  (2000)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
Dialects
Alunfa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bqo
Glottolog balo1264[2]

Balo is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. Alunfa is distinct, and perhaps should be considered a different language.

Balo and Alunfa are poorly documented, and for a time had been considered Tivoid languages.

References

  1. ↑ Balo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Balo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.