Babanki

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Babanki

Spoken in

Cameroon
speaker 22,500
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

bbk

The Babanki (also finge, kedjom, kejeng, kejom, kidzem, kidzom; ISO 639-3: bbk) is a bantoide language , from the ethnic group of the Babanki from the culture region Grasslands of Cameroon in Cameroon Region Northwest is spoken by 22,500 people .

The language is one of the central ring languages ​​within the group of grassland languages . The speakers are increasingly adopting Cameroonian pidgine English - and, over time, the official language, English - as their mother tongue. The main places where the language is spoken are: Kejom-Ketingo and Kejom-Keku.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. bbk
  2. (2000 SIL)
  3. Ethnologue