• Limba (Malimba, Mulimba) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is very closely related to Duala. Speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility with...
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  • centre usually speak French. The Limba participate in the annual Ngondo, a traditional festival for all of Cameroon's coastal peoples, during which participants...
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  • Limba may refer to: The Limba people (Cameroon) The Limba language (Cameroon) The Limba people (Sierra Leone) The Limba language (Sierra Leone) The Terminalia...
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    Cameroon is home to at least 250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages...
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  • Tanga, or Noho, is a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Limba speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility and call it "Old Malimba"...
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  • Fali comprises two languages spoken in northern Cameroon. Included in Greenberg's Adamawa languages (as group G11), it was excluded from that family by...
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    Duala people (category Ethnic groups in Cameroon)
    the Bakweri (or Kwe), the Bamboko, the Isubu (Isuwu or Bimbians), the Limba (or Malimba), the Mungo, the Wovea and Oroko, they are generally known as...
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  • and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Duala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. It is a tonal language with subject–verb–object...
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  • Mungo people (category Ethnic groups in Cameroon)
    entered Limba country from Efik territories at some point and assimilated. By the 16th century, the Duala had become the leading traders in Cameroon. The...
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  • Sawabantu languages are a group of Bantu languages that are spoken in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. The group consists mostly of zones A.20 and...
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  • Hauteclocque LGBT rights in Cameroon (Gay rights) Limba people (Cameroon) Limbe; Victoria, Cameroon Littoral Region (Cameroon) Lobéké National Park Lock...
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    (subscription required) Limba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) "Limba, East". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-11. "Limba, West-Central". Ethnologue...
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  • Airport, the IATA code MZD ISO 639:mzd, the ISO 639 code for the Limba language (Cameroon) Moscow Railway, a subsidiary of Russian Railways MK MZD, an orbital...
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    Oroko people (category Ethnic groups in Cameroon)
    the Bodiman, the Pongo, the Bamboko, the Isubu (Isuwu or Bimbians), the Limba (or Malimba), the Mungo, and the Wovea. The Oroko occupy the Ndian and Meme...
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    languages by excluding all languages of the southern branch, which they treat as four primary branches (viz. Sua, Limba, Gola, and the Mel languages)...
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    Kwe people (section Language)
    (or Kwe) are a Bantu ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. They are closely related to Cameroon's coastal peoples (the Sawa), particularly the Duala...
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    "Official Languages". United Nations. Retrieved 9 November 2023. "Cameroon". Compendium of Language Management in Canada (CLMC). uOttawa. Retrieved 9 November...
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    population of Africa or 5% of the world population). Bantu languages are largely spoken southeast of Cameroon, and throughout Central, Southern, Eastern, and Southeast...
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  • Malimba may refer to: Limba people (Cameroon) Malimba language of Cameroon Malimba, Gabon In East and Southeast Africa, a musical instrument analogous...
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    sometimes grouped with Senegambian Mel languages Limba language Gola language Volta–Congo North-Volta Kru: languages of the Kru people in West Africa; includes...
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    group who inhabit part of the coast of Cameroon. Along with other coastal peoples, they belong to Cameroon's Sawa ethnic groups. They were one of the...
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    The Beboid languages are any of two families of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two (Bukwen and Mashi) are...
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    The Tivoid languages are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in parts of Nigeria and Cameroon. The subfamily takes its name after Tiv, the...
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  • and across the border in Cameroon, with one language (Ngbaka) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and several languages with few speakers in the...
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    Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon and some...
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    Delta–Cross languages are a branch of the Benue–Congo language family spoken in south-easternmost Nigeria, with some speakers in south-westernmost Cameroon. The...
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    of the Dagaare language are also found in Cameroon. The Samu languages of Burkina Faso are Gur languages. Like most Niger–Congo languages, the ancestor...
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    Kole people (category Ethnic groups in Cameroon)
    ethnic group of the Republic of Cameroon. They belong to the Sawa, or Cameroonian coastal peoples. The Bakole speak a language of the same name. According...
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    Ekoid languages are a dialect cluster of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southeastern Nigeria and in adjacent regions of Cameroon. They...
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  • Bakole, and Limba, speak languages closely related to Duala, so the proposed kinship is not difficult to accept. However, even Sawa whose language more resembles...
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