Language variety spoken by the Babongo-Rimba pygmies of Gabon
| Rimba |
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| Irimba |
| Native to | Gabon |
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| Ethnicity | Barimba Pygmies |
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Language family | |
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| Language codes |
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| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
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| Glottolog | None |
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Rimba (Irimba) is the speech variety of the Babongo-Rimba pygmies of Gabon. Generally considered a dialect of Punu, it may preserve a core of non-Bantu vocabulary, and so to be conservative should be considered unclassified.[1]
References
- ^ "DDL : CLHASS - Themes and actions". www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
- "Towards a new classification of African languages", Linguistic Contribution to the History of Sub-Saharan Africa, University of Lyons
