Bankon language

Bankon
Spoken in	Cameroon
Region	Littoral region
Native speakers	12,000  (2001)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone A) Basaa (A.40) Rombi–Bankon Bankon
Language codes
ISO 639-3	abb

Bankon (Abo, Abaw, Bo, Bon) is a Bantu language spoken in the Moungo department of the Littoral Province of southwestern Cameroon.^[1] It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Rombi which is spoken in the nearby Meme department of Southwest Province.^[1]

Bankon is the endonym. Abo is an administrative name.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Report for Bankon language". Ethnologue. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=abb. Retrieved 2010-01-01. 

External links

• Map of Bankon language from the LL-Map Project
• Information on Bankon language from the MultiTree Project