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Ngumba language
Ngumba is a language of Cameroon, spoken in the south along the coast and at the border with Equatorial Guinea by some 70 000 native speakers. 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).
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 |
Ranking: | not in top 100 |
Genetic classification: |
Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo |
Official status | |
Official language of: | -- |
Regulated by: | -- |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | bnt |
SIL | NMG |