Mbu, or Ajumbu, is a

Southern Bantoid Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family. It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and isolates of eastern Nigeria and west-central Cameroon (though the affiliation of some branch ...

language of

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

. It is traditionally classified as a

Western Beboid The Beboid languages are any of two families of Southern Bantoid languages spoken principally in southwest Cameroon, although two (Bukwen and Mashi) are spoken over the border in southeast Nigeria. The Eastern Beboid languages may be most closely ...

language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family. Inasmuch as Western Beboid may be valid, Mbu would appear to be the most divergent of its languages. "Mbu" is the name of the village the language is spoken in.

Phonology

There are three tones; high, mid, and low.

References

* Blench, Roger, 2011
'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'
''Bantu IV'', Humboldt University, Berlin. *Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009
'Reassessing Western Beboid'
Bantu III. *Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008
'Western Beboid and African language classification'
LSA.

External links

* ELAR archive o
Ajumbu language documentation materials
Beboid languages Languages of Cameroon {{SBantoid-lang-stub