Meta' language

Meta’
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
190,000  (2010)[1]
Dialects
Moghamo
Ngamambo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
mgo  Meta'
nbv  Ngamambo
Glottolog widi1234[2]

Meta’ is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. The Moghamo variety is perhaps divergent enough to be considered a separate language. Ngamambo is 88% similar lexically to Meta’, and often is considered separate.

References

  1. Meta' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ngamambo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Widikum–Tadkon [sic]". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.