The Ring or Ring Road languages, spoken in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon, form a branch of the Narrow Grassfields languages. The best-known Ring language is Kom.

The family is named after the old Ring Road of central Cameroon.

Languages

• Centre: Babanki, Mmen, Kom, Mbessa, Bum, Kung, Kuk, Oku

• East: Nso (Lamnso')

• South: Vengo, Wushi, Bamunka, Kenswei Nsei

• West: Aghem, Isu, Laimbue, Weh, Zhoa

See also

• List of Proto-Ring reconstructions (Wiktionary)

References

External links

• Ethnographic information on the Bum people http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/Era_Resources/Era/Kingdom_Bum/main.html