Oroko
| Oroko | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 106,000 | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Oroko (also Bakundu-Balue) is the language of the Oroko . It is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 168,000 people in Cameroon .
It is common in the districts of Meme and Ndian in the Sud-Ouest province .
classification
is a Northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Lundu Balong group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone A10. Within the Lundu-Balong languages, it is the only language assigned to the Oroko group.
It has the dialects Lokundu (also Bakundu, Kundu, Lakundu, Bekunde, Bawo and Nkundu), Lolue (also Balue, Barue, Babue, West Kundu and Lue), Mbonge, Ekombe (also Bekombo and Ekumbe), Londo (also Balondo Ba Nanga and Balondo Ba Diko), Longolo (also Ngolo), Bima, Lotanga (also Batanga) and Lokoko (also Bakoko).