Fang 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 branc ...
language of
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
.
"Fang" 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.
*https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/Mve-2013-Fang.pdf
Beboid languages
Languages of Cameroon
{{SBantoid-lang-stub