Batanga (language)

Batanga
Spoken in	Equatorial Guinea , Cameroon
speaker	15,000
Linguistic ; classification	Niger Congo Languages Benue Congo languages Bantoid languages Bantu languages Batanga ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	-
ISO 639-3	bnm

Batanga (also Bano'o, Banoho, Banoo, Noho, Nohu and Noku) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 15,000 people in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon .

It is widespread with around 9,000 speakers in Equatorial Guinea and around 6,000 speakers in Cameroon in the Océan district in the Sud province .

Batanga is written in the Latin script .

classification

Batanga is a northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Bube Benga group , which is classified as the Guthrie Zone A30.

It has the dialects Bano'o (also Banoo, Banaka and Banoko), Bapuku (also Puku, Poko, Naka and Bapuu) and Batanga.

Batanga language area