Meta' language

Meta’
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	190,000 (2010)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Momo Meta’
Dialects	Moghamo Ngamambo
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: `mgo` – Meta' `nbv` – Ngamambo
Glottolog	`widi1234`^[2]

Meta’ is a Southern Bantoid 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

↑ Meta' at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Ngamambo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Widikum–Tadkon [sic]". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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