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Manta language

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Native to
  
Cameroon

Dialects
  
Manta Tanka Batakpa

Native speakers
  
5,300 Manta (2001) 300 Áncá (2006)

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Southwest Manta

ISO 639-3
  
Either: myg – Manta acb – Áncá (?)

Glottolog
  
mant1267  (Manta) anca1236  (Anca)

Manta (Anta, Banta) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

Áncá of Nigeria may be the same language, but is unattested.

References

Manta language Wikipedia