Longto (Lɔ̀ŋtó, LõtóKleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2012. Lexique Lɔ̀ŋtó-Français avec un index Français-Lɔ̀ŋtó. Lamido de Voko le Comite de Developpement du Lamidat de Voko et le Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Communaute Allemande de la Recherche Scientifique).), or Voko (Woko), is a member of the Duru branch of

Savanna languages The Savannas languages, also known as Gur–Adamawa or Adamawa–Gur, is a branch of the Niger–Congo languages that includes Greenberg's Gur and Adamawa–Ubangui families. History of classification The Gur–Adamawa link was demonstrated in ...

that is spoken in Poli Subdivision of

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, Cameroon.

Names

Speakers call themselves ''Lɔŋmó'' or ''Lõmó'', and their language ''Lɔ̀ŋtó'' or ''Lõtó''. ''Voko'' is an exonym. They call their village ''Gormaya'', although outsiders refer to the village as ''Voko''.

Fulfulde Fula ,Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh also known as Fulani or Fulah (, , ; Adlam: , , ), is a Senegambian language spoken by around 30 million people as a set of various dialects in a continuum that st ...

is the local lingua franca.Scott Westermann and Annette Westermann. 2001. A Rapid Appraisal Survey of Longto ALCAM 01 Rapid Appraisal May 2001, Poli Subdivision, Faro Division, North Province, Cameroon.

Villages

Lontô is spoken by 2,400 speakers around Voko in the massifs and plains located southwest of Poli (next to Faro National Park) in Poli commune,

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, Northern Region. 14 villages that are exclusively ethnic Longmo are Gormaya (Voko), Ouro-Kila, Delengui, Ndougouri, Longote, Paté-Petel, Paté-Manga, Ouro-Kessoum, Lenguerba, Mayo-Djarendi, Taroua, Meta-Diam, and Ngoutiri. Villages with both Longmo and Dooyaayo people are Ouro-Mbay, Salaki, and Guito.

References

{{Adamawa languages Duru languages Languages of Cameroon