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Mpumpong language

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Pronunciation
  
[pʰùpʰôŋ]

Native to
  
Cameroon

Native speakers
  
(75,000, incl. Konabem cited 1991–1996)

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantu (Zone A) Makaa–Njem + Kako (A.80–90) Ndzem–Bomwali Bekwilic Mpumpong

Dialects
  
Mezime (Medjime) Mpiemo Mpumpong

ISO 639-3
  
Either: mgg – Mpumpong mcx – Mpiemo

Mpumpong (Mpongmpong) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. Maho (2009) considers Mpiemo to be a dialect.

The ⟨mp⟩ is pronounced like an English p.

References

Mpumpong language Wikipedia