The Ring or Ring Road languages, spoken in the
Western Grassfields
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of
Cameroon
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, form a branch of the
Narrow Grassfields languages. The best-known Ring language is
Kom.
The family is named after the old
Ring Road
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of central Cameroon.
Languages
*Centre:
Babanki,
Mmen,
Kom,
Mbessa,
Bum,
Kung
Kung or Küng may refer to:
* ǃKung people
* ǃKung language
* Kung (Haida village), an historical village of the Haida people of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada; also Kung Indian Reserve No. 11 at the same location
* Ku ...
,
Kuk,
Oku
*East:
Nso (Lamnso')
*South:
Vengo,
Wushi,
Bamunka,
Kenswei Nsei
*West:
Aghem
Aghem (Wum or Yum) is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in the Wum Central Sub-division in Menchum Division of the North West Region of Cameroon
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,
Isu,
Laimbue,
Weh,
Zhoa
See also
*
List of Proto-Ring reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
External links
*Ethnographic information on the Bum peopl
Ring languages,
Grassfields Bantu languages
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