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Bankon language

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Native to
  
Cameroon

Native speakers
  
12,000 (2001)

Glottolog
  
bank1256

Region
  
Littoral region

ISO 639-3
  
abb

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone A) Basaa (A.40) Rombi–Bankon Bankon

e18/Bankon (Abo, Abaw, Bo, Bon) is a Bantu language spoken in the Moungo department of the Littoral Province of southwestern Cameroon. It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Rombi which is spoken in the nearby Meme department of Southwest Province.

Bankon is the endonym. Abo is an administrative name.

References

Bankon language Wikipedia