Bafaw Balong

Bafaw Balong
Spoken in	Cameroon
speaker	8400
Linguistic ; classification	Niger Congo Languages Benue Congo languages Bantoid languages Bantu languages Bafaw Balong ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	bwt

Bafaw-Balong (also Ngoe) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 8,400 people in Cameroon .

It is common in the Meme district in the Sud-Ouest province and in the Moungo district in the Littoral province .

classification

Bafaw-Balong is a northwest Bantu language and is one of the Ngoe languages within the Lundu-Balong group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone A10. Malcolm Guthrie named the language Balong and assigned it the number A13.

Bafaw-Balong has the dialects Bafaw (also Bafo, Bafowu, Afo, Nho and Lefo ') and Balong (also Balon, Balung, Nlong, Valongi, Bayi and Bai).

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Individual evidence

↑ Malcolm Guthrie: Comparative Bantu . Gregg Press, London 1969/71.

[1] Malcolm Guthrie: Comparative Bantu . Gregg Press, London 1969/71.