Native to Cameroon Native speakers 2,200 (2001) Glottolog mali1280 | Ethnicity Limba ISO 639-3 mzd | |
Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Bantoid
Bantu (Zone A)
Sawabantu (A.20)
Limba | ||
Limba (Malimba, Mulimba) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is very closely related to Duala. Speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility with Tanga (Batanga), which they call "Old Malimba". Most speak Duala as the local lingua franca.
References
Limba language (Cameroon) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA