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Tanga language

Tanga, or Noho, is a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Limba speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility and call it "Old Malimba".

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Tanga
Noho
Native toCameroon, Equatorial Guinea
EthnicityBatanga (Banoho)
Native speakers
(6,000 in Cameroon cited 1982)1
9,000 in Equatorial Guinea (2001)
Dialects
  • Puku (Naka, Kribi Bapoko)
  • Nohu (Noko, Londgi Banoo)
  • Tanga (Fifinda Batanga)
Language codes
ISO 639-3bnm
Glottologbata1285
A.322

Tanga, or Noho, is a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Limba speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility and call it "Old Malimba".3

References

References

  1. Tanga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. M. Lamberty - A rapid appraisal survey of Malimba in Cameroon