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	~~<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Nge,Nguu,Ngo,Vengoo,Ngwa,Pengo,Vengi,Babungo~~


	~~<b>Description:</b>~~

	Babungo is the language of the Babungo people originating from a village also called "Babungo" located in the Cameroonian Grassfields. It is a Grassfields Bantu language within the Benue-Congo language family. The spelling Bamungo is also often found.
	~~In their own language, the Babungo people call their village vengo~~ [vəŋóo] and their language ghang vengo [gháŋ vəŋóo], which means "language of the vengo"; this is why the Babungo language is officially also listed under the names "Vengo" or "Vengoo". Other terms for the Babungo language are: Vengi, Pengo, Ngo, Nguu, Ngwa, Nge.
	Babungo is spoken by about 14,000 people. Because the Babungo people all live closely together and concentrate only in and around the Babungo village, there are only small dialectical variations in their speech, which are negligible.
	As it is the case for all other Bantu languages (except Swahili), the Babungo language uses different tone pitches, which, similar to the Chinese language, form a distinctive feature for the meaning of the words. Babungo has even got a very complex tone system: So for the vowels there are eight distinctive pitch types or pitch sequences: high, mid, low, high-mid, high-low,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=3312426 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
	~~<tr><td><h2>Location of Vengo Language Speakers</h2>~~
	~~<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="7.115833" lon="14.859654" type="map">~~
	~~5.129569, 11.438057, Cameroon~~
	~~9.102097, 18.281250, Africa</googlemap>~~
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	~~<h2>Overview</h2>~~

	~~<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/cameroon Cameroon]</td></tr>~~

	~~<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>~~

	~~<b><i>Regions: </i></b>~~[~~http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]~~
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	~~<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>~~bav~~</td></tr>~~

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	~~<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>~~
	~~[[All Languages]]~~

	~~  [[Niger-Congo Group]]~~

	~~    [[Atlantic-Congo Group]]~~

	~~      [[Volta-Congo Group]]~~

	~~        [[Benue-Congo Group]]~~

	~~          [[Bantoid Group]]~~

	~~            [[Southern Bantoid Group]]~~

	~~              [[Wide Grassfields Group]]~~

	~~                [[Narrow Grassfields Group]]~~

	~~                  [[Ring Group]]~~

	~~                    [[North Ring Group]]~~

	~~                      <b>[[Vengo Language~~]]~~</b>~~

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Also Known As: Nge,Nguu,Ngo,Vengoo,Ngwa,Pengo,Vengi,Babungo Descri...
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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Nge,Nguu,Ngo,Vengoo,Ngwa,Pengo,Vengi,Babungo

<b>Description:</b>

Babungo is the language of the Babungo people originating from a village also called "Babungo" located in the Cameroonian Grassfields. It is a Grassfields Bantu language within the Benue-Congo language family. The spelling Bamungo is also often found.
In their own language, the Babungo people call their village vengo [vəŋóo] and their language ghang vengo [gháŋ vəŋóo], which means "language of the vengo"; this is why the Babungo language is officially also listed under the names "Vengo" or "Vengoo". Other terms for the Babungo language are: Vengi, Pengo, Ngo, Nguu, Ngwa, Nge.
Babungo is spoken by about 14,000 people. Because the Babungo people all live closely together and concentrate only in and around the Babungo village, there are only small dialectical variations in their speech, which are negligible.
As it is the case for all other Bantu languages (except Swahili), the Babungo language uses different tone pitches, which, similar to the Chinese language, form a distinctive feature for the meaning of the words. Babungo has even got a very complex tone system: So for the vowels there are eight distinctive pitch types or pitch sequences: high, mid, low, high-mid, high-low,<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=3312426 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Vengo Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="7.115833" lon="14.859654" type="map">
5.129569, 11.438057, Cameroon
9.102097, 18.281250, Africa</googlemap>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/cameroon Cameroon]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>bav</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]

  [[Niger-Congo Group]]

    [[Atlantic-Congo Group]]

      [[Volta-Congo Group]]

        [[Benue-Congo Group]]

          [[Bantoid Group]]

            [[Southern Bantoid Group]]

              [[Wide Grassfields Group]]

                [[Narrow Grassfields Group]]

                  [[Ring Group]]

                    [[North Ring Group]]

                      <b>[[Vengo Language]]</b>

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