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
Kom or KOM may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Kom people (Afghanistan), a Nuristani tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan
* Kom people (Cameroon), an ethnic group of northwest Cameroon
* Kom people (India) a subgroup of the Kuki in north-eastern India
* ...
.
The family is named after the old
Ring Road
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of central Cameroon.
Languages
*Centre:
Babanki,
Mmen,
Kom
Kom or KOM may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* Kom people (Afghanistan), a Nuristani tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan
* Kom people (Cameroon), an ethnic group of northwest Cameroon
* Kom people (India) a subgroup of the Kuki in north-eastern India
* ...
,
Mbessa,
Bum,
Kung,
Kuk,
Oku Oku or OKU may refer to:
*Oku, Cameroon, subdivision in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
** Lake Oku, a crater lake on the Bamenda Plateau in the Northwest Region of Cameroon
** Mount Oku, the largest volcano in the Oku Massif, in the Cameroon Volc ...
*East:
Nso (Lamnso')
*South:
Vengo,
Wushi,
Bamunka
Bamunka is a small village of Cameroon located in the North West Region along the ring road from Bamenda. Bamunka Village is the Sub Divisional Headquarter of Ndop Central Subdivision and the Divisional Headquarter of Ngoketunjia Division.
Bamun ...
,
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.
References
External links
Miscellaneous Links
Aghem Bible translation ProjectEntries for Aghem ...
,
Isu,
Laimbue,
Weh,
Zhoa
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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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