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Mmem (Bafmeng) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.As a Center Ring language of Narrow Grassfields a subdivision of Wide Grassfields within the Southern Bantoid languages Mmen is part of a cluster including six other languages i.e. Babanki Bum Kom Kuk Kung and Oku (Lewis 2009). The name Mmen ([mɛn]) comes from the verb sé mwɛ̀yn [sémɣɛ̀yn] ‘to open up thick bush-covered land’ and is used by the speakers referring to both their language and their land.

ISO 639-3 code
bfm
family
Benue–Congo languages, Atlantic–Congo languages, Grassfields Bantu languages, Southern Bantoid languages
spoken in
Cameroon

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