Limbum language

Limbum
Limbum
RegionCameroon
Native speakers
130,000 (2005)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lmp
Glottologlimb1268
PeopleWimbum[2]
LanguageLimbum

Limbum is a Grassfields language of Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Nigeria. It is used as a trade language by some, but is primarily the mother tongue of the Wimbum people, who live in Donga-Mantung division of the Northwest Region, at the top of the Ring Road.

  1. ^ Limbum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.