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This latter group comprises one Senegambian language , 28 Adamawa languages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages (130 of which are Bantu languages). [5] French and English are official languages, a heritage of Cameroon's colonial past as a colony of both France and the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1961.
Following is a list of Bantu languages as ... Mbola, Mbule of Cameroon, Mbure) Boone 1992 ... Mbuttu (D313, Pygmy language spoken in Avakubi district on the north ...
The Bantu languages descend from a common Proto-Bantu language, which is believed to have been spoken in what is now Cameroon in Central Africa. [21] An estimated 2,500–3,000 years ago (1000 BC to 500 BC), speakers of the Proto-Bantu language began a series of migrations eastward and southward, carrying agriculture with them.
Kako (also Mkako or Mkaka) is a Bantu language spoken mainly in Cameroon, with some speakers in the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo.The main population centres of Kako speakers are Batouri and Ndélélé in the East Region of Cameroon.
Basaa (also spelled Bassa, Basa, Bissa), or Mbene, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon by the Basaa people. It is spoken by about 300,000 people in the Centre and Littoral regions. Maho (2009) lists North and South Kogo as dialects.
Bantu languages derive from the Proto-Bantu reconstructed language, estimated to have been spoken about 4,000 to 3,000 years ago in West/Central Africa (the area of modern-day Cameroon).
The Basaá (or Bassa) language belongs to the group of Bantu languages. It is spoken by around 800,000 people around the towns of Édéa , Éséka and Douala . It has phonetic and grammatical characteristics common to many Bantu languages, such as noun classes, the implosive “ b ” and a tone system: high tone, low tone, low-high tone, high ...
Bafaw-Balong is a Bantu language of Cameroon.There are two divergent varieties, Fo’ (Bafaw, Bafo, Bafowu, Afo, Nho, Lefo’) and Long (Balong, Balon, Balung, Nlong ...