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[2] |
A.42[3] | |
Bankon is the endonym. Abo is an administrative name.
References
- Bankon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bankon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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