Ngemba languages

Ngemba languages
Ngemba
Geographic
distribution:		 Grasslands of
western Cameroon
Linguistic classification: Niger–Congo
Subdivisions:
—
Ethnologue code: 256-16

The Ngemba languages are a dialect cluster of Grassfields Bantu languages of the western grasslands of Cameroon.

The languages are Awing, Bambili-Bambui, Bafut, Beba, Bamukumbit, Kpati, Mendankwe-Nkwen, Mankon, Mbatu, Chomba, Akum Ngemba, Pinyin.

The name Ngemba comes from the local pidgin nge mba "said that".[citation needed]

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