Manta language

Southwest Grassfields language of Cameroon
Manta
Anta
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
5,300 Manta (2001)[1]
300 Áncá (2006)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
        • Grassfields
          • Southwest
            • Manta
Dialects
  • Manta
  • Tanka
  • Batakpa
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
myg – Manta
acb – Áncá (?)
Glottologmant1267  Manta
anca1236  Anca

Manta (Anta, Banta) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

Áncá of Nigeria may be the same language,[1] but it is unattested.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Manta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Áncá (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Anca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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