Ngwo language

Ngwo
Ngwɔ
Pronunciation	ŋɡwɔ
Region	Cameroon
Native speakers	22,000 (2004)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Momo Ngwo
Dialects	Konda Basa
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ngn`
Glottolog	`ngwo1241`^[2]

The Ngwo speak a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. The Konda and Basa varieties are perhaps divergent enough to be considered distinct languages.

References

↑ Ngwo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ngwo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Various recordings of Ngwo in the UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive

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