Mpumpong language

Mpumpong
Mpumpoŋ
Pronunciation[pʰùpʰôŋ]
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
(75,000, incl. Konabem cited 1991–1996)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Dialects
  • Mezime (Medjime)
  • Mpiemo
  • Mpumpong
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
mgg – Mpumpong
mcx – Mpiemo
Glottologmpon1254  Mpongmpong
mpie1238  Mpiemo
A.86[2]

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

The digraph ⟨mp⟩ is pronounced like an English p.

  1. ^ Mpumpong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Mpiemo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online