Mpumpong language

Mpumpong
Mpumpoŋ
Pronunciation [pʰùpʰôŋ]
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
(75,000, incl. Konabem cited 1991–1996)[1]
Niger–Congo
Dialects
  • Mezime (Medjime)
  • Mpiemo
  • Mpumpong
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
mgg  Mpumpong
mcx  Mpiemo
Glottolog mpon1254  (Mpongmpong)[2]
mpie1238  (Mpiemo)[3]
A.86[4]

Mpumpong (Mpongmpong) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. Maho (2009) considers Mpiemo to be a dialect.

The mp is pronounced like an English p.

References

  1. Mpumpong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mpiemo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mpongmpong". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mpiemo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online


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