Yamba | |
Region: | Cameroon, Nigeria |
Ethnicity: | Yamba |
Speakers: | 80,000 in Cameroon |
Date: | 2000 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam5: | Grassfields |
Fam6: | Eastern |
Fam7: | Mantungland |
Iso3: | yam |
Dia1: | Mbem |
Dia2: | Ntem |
Dia3: | Mfe |
Dia4: | Nkot |
Dia5: | Ntong |
Dia6: | Kwak |
Glotto: | yamb1251 |
Glottorefname: | Yamba |
Yamba is a Grassfields language of the Northwest region of southern Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Eastern Nigeria. Mbem village has the largest population of Yamba speakers in the region.