Bankon language
Bankon (Abo, Abaw, Bo, Bon) is a Bantu language spoken in the Moungo department of the Littoral Province of southwestern Cameroon.[1] It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Rombi which is spoken in the nearby Meme department of Southwest Province.[1]
Bankon | |
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Abo | |
Native to | Cameroon |
Region | Littoral region |
Native speakers | 12,000 (2001)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | abb |
Glottolog | bank1256 |
A.42 [2] | |
ELP | Bankon[3] |
Bankon is the endonym. Abo is an administrative name.
References
- Bankon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- Endangered Languages Project data for Bankon.
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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