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Languages
Some 250 languages spoken in Cameroon, with their speakers and families.
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- Tanga languageTanga, or Noho, is a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Limba speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility and call it "Old Malimba".
- Tibea languageNgayaba, also known as Tɨɓɛa or Djanti, is a Bantu language spoken in three villages in Cameroon.
- Tigon languageMbembe, or more specifically Tigon Mbembe, is a Jukunoid language of Cameroon and Nigeria.
- Tikar languageTikar (also called Tigé, Tigré or Tikari) is a Northern Bantoid, semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies, who speak their own dialect of the language.
Tiv languageTiv is a Tivoid language spoken in some states in North Central Nigeria, with some speakers in Cameroon. 6 million speakers in 2020. The largest population of Tiv speakers are found in Benue state in Nigeria.- To languageTo is an unclassified Mbum language of northern Cameroon and the Central African Republic. It is only used as a second language, as the secret male initiation language of the Gbaya.
- Tsuvan languageTsuvan (also known as Matsuvan, Motsuvan, Terki, Telaki, Teleki, Tchede) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province.
- Tuotomb languageTuotomb, or Bonek, is a Mbam language of Cameroon. Its speakers can be found in Bonek near Ndikinemeki, Cameroon. It is classified as endangered by Ethnologue.
- Tupuri languageTupuri (autonym: jäāk Tüpürï), sometimes rendered as Toupouri, is a language mostly spoken in the Mayo-Kebbi Est Region of southern Chad and in small parts of northern Cameroon. It is an Mbum language spoken by the Tupuri people with approximately 352,000 speakers.
