Bali Nyonga is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in the Northwest Region of the country

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on the West Central borders on the

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. It is the

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of the Bali Nyonga, a

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of the Chamba Leko group - an entity that migrated from

Chamba Chamba may refer to: People *Gilberto Chamba (born 1961), Ecuadorian serial killer *Jessica Chamba (born 1981), European activist Places Ghana *Chamba, a town in the Northern Region India *Chamba (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Himachal Pradesh *Ch ...

around 1600. Their

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is known as

mungaka The Nga'ka language, or ''Munga'ka'', also known as Bali, is a Grassfields language spoken by the people of Bali Nyonga in Cameroon. They are the descendants of the Chamba Chamba may refer to: People * Gilberto Chamba (born 1961), Ecuadorian ...

External links

Bali Cultural Association

Ethnologue

References

{{coord missing, Cameroon Populated places in Northwest Region (Cameroon)