Metaʼ language

Metaʼ
Metaʼ
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	190,000 (2010)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Grassfields Momo Metaʼ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Moghamo; Ngamambo;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; mgo – Metaʼ; nbv – Ngamambo
Glottolog	meta1238

Metaʼ is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. The Moghamo variety is perhaps divergent enough to be considered a separate language. Ngamambo is 88% similar lexically to Meta’, and often is considered separate.

References

↑ Metaʼ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ngamambo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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[e18-1] Metaʼ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ngamambo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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