Rimba language

Rimba
Rimba
Irimba
Native to	Gabon
Ethnicity	Barimba Pygmies
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	None

Last updated October 21, 2025

Rimba (Irimba) is the speech variety of the Babongo-Rimba pygmies of Gabon. Generally considered a dialect of Punu, it may preserve a core of non-Bantu vocabulary, and so to be conservative should be considered unclassified.^[1]

References

↑ "DDL : CLHASS - Themes and actions". www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2017-01-22.

"Towards a new classification of African languages", Linguistic Contribution to the History of Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Lyons

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[1] "DDL : CLHASS - Themes and actions". www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2017-01-22.

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