Tanga language explained

Tanga
Nativename:Noho
States:Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
Ethnicity:Batanga (Banoho)
Speakers:6,000 in Cameroon
Date:1982
Ref:e18
Speakers2:9,000 in Equatorial Guinea (2001)
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Bantoid
Fam5:Bantu (Zone A)
Fam6:Sawabantu (A.30)
Dia1:Puku (Naka, Kribi Bapoko)
Dia2:Nohu (Noko, Londgi Banoo)
Dia3:Tanga (Fifinda Batanga)
Iso3:bnm
Guthrie:A.32
Glotto:bata1285
Glottorefname:Batanga

Tanga, or Noho, is a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Limba speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility and call it "Old Malimba".[1]

Notes and References

  1. M. Lamberty - A rapid appraisal survey of Malimba in Cameroon