Limba language (Cameroon)

Limba
Malimba
Native toCameroon
EthnicityLimba
Native speakers
2,200 (2001)
Language codes
ISO 639-3mzd
Glottologmali1280
A.27

Limba (Malimba, Mulimba) is a Bantu language of Cameroon. It is very closely related to Duala. Speakers report some degree of mutual intelligibility with Tanga (Batanga), which they call "Old Malimba". Most speak Duala as the local lingua franca.