Pole (language)
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Spoken in |
Cameroon , Republic of the Congo | |
| speaker | 44,100 | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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Pol (also Congo Pol, Pomo, Pori and Pul) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 44,100 people in Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo .
In Cameroon, Pol is spoken by around 38,700 people in the Haut-Nyong and Lom-et-Djérem districts of Est Province. In the Republic of Congo, it is spoken by around 5400 people north of Ouésso in the Sangha region.
classification
Pol is a northwest Bantu language and, together with the languages Kako and Kwakum, forms the Kako group , which is classified as Guthrie Zone A90.
It has the dialects Azom (also Pori Asom and Asom), Bobili, Dondi, Mambaya and Pori Kinda (also Kinda).