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Languages
Some 250 languages spoken in Cameroon, with their speakers and families.
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- Oblo languageOblo is a poorly attested, unclassified, and possibly extinct language of northern Cameroon. It is, or was, spoken in a tiny area including Gobtikéré, Ouro Bé, and Ouro Badjouma, in Pitoa, Bénoué Department.
- Oku languageOku (Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo, Kuɔ) is a Grassfields Bantoid language that is primarily spoken by the Oku people of northwest Cameroon, a fondom of the Tikar people. They are a different ethnic group from the Oku people of Sierra Leone.
- Oli-Bodiman languageDuala (native name: Duálá) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Duala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. It is a tonal language with subject–verb–object word order.
- Oroko languageOroko, also Bakundu-Balue or Balundu-Bima, is a group of Bantu languages spoken in Cameroon.
- Osatu languageOsatu (Ihatum) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.