Limba language (Cameroon) should not be confused with Limba language.
Limba | |
Nativename: | Malimba |
States: | Cameroon |
Ethnicity: | Limba |
Date: | 2001 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta–Congo languages |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam7: | Bantu |
Fam8: | Zone A |
Fam9: | Sawabantu |
Fam10: | Duala–Limba |
Iso3: | mzd |
Glotto: | mali1280 |
Glottorefname: | Malimba |
Guthrie: | A.27 |
Limba (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".[1] Most speak Duala as the local lingua franca.