Ngumba language
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| Ngumba | ||
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| Spoken in: | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea | |
| Region: | along the coast at the border between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea | |
| Total speakers: | 70,000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Bantoid Southern Narrow Bantu Northwest Ngumba |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bnt | |
| ISO 639-3: | nmg | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ngumba is a language of Cameroon, spoken in the south along the coast and at the border with Equatorial Guinea by some 70 000 members of the Ngumba ethnic group. Ngumba is a tonal language. As a Narrow Bantu language, it has noun class system. The Ngumba noun class system is somewhat reduced, having retained only 6 genders (a gender being a pairing of a singular and a plural noun class).
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