Noho language

Not to be confused with the Batanga dialect of Caka or of Oroko
Tanga
Noho
Native to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
Ethnicity Batanga (Banoho)
Native speakers
unknown (6,000 in Cameroon cited 1982)[1]
9,000 in Equatorial Guinea (2001)
Dialects
Puku (Naka, Kribi Bapoko)
Nohu (Noko, Londgi Banoo)
Tanga (Fifinda Batanga)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bnm
Glottolog bata1285[2]
A.32[3]

Tanga, or Noho, is a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Limba speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility and call it "Old Malimba".[4]

References

  1. Tanga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Batanga". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. M. Lamberty - A rapid appraisal survey of Malimba in Cameroon
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