Mambila
| Mambila | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nigeria and Cameroon | |
| speaker | 130,000 (1993) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
mzk |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
mcu |
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Mambila is a bantoid language of the Semibantu languages.
The Mambila language is also called Mabila, Mambere or Mambilla and is a representative of the mambiloid languages .
It is a dialect chain that extends over Nigeria and Cameroon . Notable dialects are Barup, Bang, Dorofi, Gembu, Hainari, Kabri, Mayo Ndaga, Mbamnga, Tamien, Tepo, Warwar (in Nigeria); Ju Ba, Sunu Torbi (Torbi), Ju Naare (Gembu), Langa (in Cameroon). Well-known names in the Mambila language are, in addition to the dialectal first names Bea, Ble, Juli, Lagubi, Nor, Nor Tagbo, Tongbo.