Ngombale is a member of the Bamileke branch of the Eastern Grasslands group of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is spoken by about 53,500 people in the Bamboutos Department of the West Region of Cameroon. In particular, it is spoken in the Babadjou commune, and in the village of Bamessingué in the Mbouda subdivion of the Baboutos Department
Ngombale is also known as Ngombale Bamileke or Bamileke-Ngombale. It is written with the Latin alphabet using a spelling system based on the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages, which was created in the late 1970s.
Download an alphabet chart for Ngombale (Excel)
Details of the Ngombale alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Information about Ngombale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngombale_language
http://www.language-archives.org/language/nla
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ngom1271
https://comlango.com/publications.html
Aghem, Ambele, Awing, Baba, Babanki, Bambalang, Bamukumbit, Bamum, Bamunka, Bangolan, Feʼfeʼ, Fut, Ghomalaʼ, Kenswei Nsei, Kom, Kwaʼ, Limbum, Mfumte, Mmen, Ndemli, Ngaʼka, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, Ngombale, Nso, Oku, Vengo, Yamba, Yemba
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 09.12.25. Last modified: 09.12.25
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