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Manta language

Manta is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

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Manta
Anta
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
(5,300 Manta cited 2001)1
300 Áncá (2006)1
Dialects
  • Manta
  • Tanka
  • Batakpa
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
myg – Manta
acb – Áncá (?)
Glottologmant1267  Manta
anca1236  Anca

Manta (Anta, Banta) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

Áncá of Nigeria may be the same language,1 but it is unattested.2

References

References

  1. Manta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Áncá (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Anca". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.