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Languages
Some 250 languages spoken in Cameroon, with their speakers and families.
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- Lagwan languageLagwan (Logone) is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects include Logone-Birni and Logone-Gana.
- Laimbue languageLaimbue is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
- Lamang languageLamang (Laamang) is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2006) classifies the Woga variety as a separate language.
- Laʼbi languageLaʼbi is the esoteric ritual language of male initiation among the Gbaya Kara, the Mbum, and some Sara Laka, in the area of Touboro near where the CAR, Chad, and Cameroon meet. It has no native speakers, but is used by 4,400 people.
- Leti languageLeti, or Mangisa, is a Bantu language of Cameroon, spoken by the Mengisa people. Most Mengisa have switched to the Eton language, though a number of them continue to use Leti as a secret ritual language. A smaller number speak Leti as their mother tongue.
- Limba languageLimba (Malimba, Mulimba) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is very closely related to Duala. Speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility with Tanga (Batanga), which they call "Old Malimba". Most speak Duala as the local lingua franca.
- Limbum languageLimbum 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.
- Lung languageLung is a poorly attested extinct language that appears to have been closely related to Ajumbu, a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon.
- Luo languageThe Luo language (Kasabe) is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Mambila in the Nyalang area, spoken in a section of the Atta region of Cameroon. The last speaker, a man named Bogon, died on 5 November 1995; he was said to be "well over" 100 years old at the time of his death.
