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Ring languages

The Ring or Ring Road languages, spoken in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon, form a branch of the Narrow Grassfields languages. The best-known Ring language is Kom.

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Ring
Ring Road
Geographic
distribution
Cameroon, Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Language codes
Glottologring1243

The Ring or Ring Road languages, spoken in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon, form a branch of the Narrow Grassfields languages. The best-known Ring language is Kom.

The family is named after the old Ring Road of central Cameroon.

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External links
  • Ethnographic information on the Bum people [1]