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Languages
Some 250 languages spoken in Cameroon, with their speakers and families.
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- Mafa languageMafa is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria by the Mafa people.
- Majera languageMajera (Mazera) is a minor Afro-Asiatic language of Chad and Cameroon.
- Makaa languageMakaa (Maka), or South Makaa, is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is not intelligible with the other language spoken by the Makaa people, North Makaa.
- Malgbe languageMalgbe is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Douguia, Dro, Malgbe, Mara, and Walia.
- Mambay languageMambay (Mamgbay, Mangbai) is a Mbum language of northern Cameroon and southern Chad.
- Mandi languageThe Mandi language, Nomaande (also Lemande or Maande), is an Mbam language of Cameroon.
- Mankon languageMankon is a Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon. It is closely related to Mundum and Mendankwe-Nkwen. Along with Mundum, it is called Ngemba.
- Manta languageManta (Anta, Banta) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.
- Maroua Sign LanguageMaroua Sign Language is a sign language used by approximately 150 people in and around the town of Maroua, capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon.
- Maslam languageMaslam is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon, with a few in southwestern Chad. Dialects are Maslam and Sao. Maslam is in rapid decline.
- Massa languageMassa (or Masana, Masa) is a Chadic language spoken in southern Chad and northern Cameroon by the Masa people. It has approximately 200,000 speakers.
- Matal languageMatal, also known as Muktele and Balda, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.
- Mazagway languageMazagway (Musgoy; also known as Mazagway-Hidi) is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon, in North Province and Far North Province. Blench (2006) classifies it as a dialect of Daba.
- Maɗa languageMaɗa is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. It has 17,000 speakers.
- Mbessa languageMbessa (Mbesa) is a Ring language spoken in Cameroon, neighboring Kom, Oku language, Noni language. Mbessa is the language of the people of Mbessa Kingdom (Fondom) in Boyo Division in the Anglophone North-West Region of Cameroon.
- Mbili-Mbui languageMbili (Bambili) and Mbui (Bambui) are dialects of a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.
- Mbo languageThe Manenguba languages, also known as the Mbo cluster, are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken on and around the Manenguba mountain range in south-western Cameroon.
- Mboa languageMboa, also known as Mbonga, is an apparently extinct language of Cameroon. Ethnologue reports 1,490 speakers cited to 2000, possibly the ethnic population.
- Mbodomo languageMbodomo (Mbódɔ̀mɔ̀, Gbaya-Mbodomo) is a Gbaya language of Cameroon.
- Mbudum languageMbudum or Mbədam is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province.
- Mbuk languageMbuk is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon.
- Mbuko languageMbuko is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the canton of Doulek, Méri subdivision, department of Diamaré, and also in parts of the canton of Serawa, Tokombéré subdivision, department of Mayo-Sava, in the Far North Region of Cameroon.
- Mbule languageMbule, also called Dumbule or Mbola, is an endangered Southern Bantoid language spoken by a few people in central Cameroon.
- Mbum languageMbum Proper (also Mboum, Buna, Mboumtiba and Wuna) is a Adamawa–Ubangi language of Central Africa. It is spoken by about 50,000 people in Cameroon and the Central African Republic.
- Mbuʼ languageMbuʼ, or Ajumbu, is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is traditionally classified as a Western Beboid language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family. Inasmuch as Western Beboid may be valid, Mbuʼ would appear to be the most divergent of its languages.
- Mbwasa languageThe Ki language, Tuki (Baki, Oki), is a Mbam language of Cameroon. It is spoken by 26,000 people in the Central Province of Cameroon, in the Lekie division and in the Mbam and Kim division, along the Sanaga river.
- Mbəʼ languageMbəʼ (Mboʼ, Mbaw) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.
- Medumba languageMedumba (Mə̀dʉ̂mbɑ̀, pronounced) is a Bamileke language of Cameroon. The people who speak it originate from the Nde division of the West Region of the country, with their main settlements in Bangangté, Bakong, Bangoulap, Bahouoc, Bagnoun and Tonga.
- Mefele languageMefele is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Mefele, Muhura, Serak, and Shugule. Blench (2006) considers Shugule (Shügule) a separate language.
- Menchum languageMenchum, or Befang, is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.
- Mendankwe-Nkwen languageMendankwe and Nkwen are distinct dialects of a Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon.
- Mengaka languageMengaka (Məgaka), or Mengaka Bamileke, is a Bamileke language of Cameroon. It was written in an indigenous script called Bagam.
- Mengisa 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.
- Menka languageMenka is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. Other names include Mamwoh and Wando Bando. It is spoken by an estimated 5,200 people.
- Menyam languageThe Menyam language, Bamenyam, is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
- Merey languageMerey is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dugur is a dialect.
- Mesaka languageMesaka, or Ugarə, is a Tivoid language spoken in Cameroon.
- Metaʼ languageMetaʼ is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. The Moghamo variety is perhaps divergent enough to be considered a separate language. Ngamambo is 88% similar lexically to Meta’, and often is considered separate.
- Mfumte languageMfumte (Nfumte) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
- Missong languageMissong is a Southern Bantoid language of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon, spoken in the village of Missong. It is closely related to Mungbam. There are around 400 speakers.
- MmaalaLe mmaala (ou yambassa du Centre, mmala, numaala, yambassa) est une langue bantoïde méridionale parlée au Cameroun dans la région du Centre, le département du Mbam-et-Inoubou, le canton de Mmala, dans et au sud de Bokito.
- Mmen languageMmen (autonym: Bafmeng) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
- Mmuock languageMmuock, alternatively Mmock, is the language of the Mmuock (Mmock) people of western Cameroon. A writing system is based on the Latin script.
- Mofu-Gudur languageMofu-Gudur, or South Mofu, is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Dialects are Dimeo, Gudur, Massagal, Mokong, Njeleng, and Zidim.
Moloko languageMoloko (Məlokwo) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.- Mono languageMono is a moribund Mbum language spoken by older adults in northern Cameroon.
- Mpade languageMpadə is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Biamo, Digam, Mpade (Makari), Shoe (Shewe), and Woulki.
- Mpiemo languageMpiemo (Bimu) is a Bantu language of the Central African Republic. The Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM, or "Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon") gives the name Mpo.
