Mbili-Mbui language

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Mbili-Mbui
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1983) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 baw
Glottolog bamb1266

Mbili (Bambili) and Mbui (Bambui) are dialects of a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.

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References

  1. Mbili-Mbui at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)