Balo language

Balo
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
2,200 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Alunfa
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bqo
Glottolog balo1264[2]

Balo is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. Alunfa is distinct, and perhaps should be considered a different language.

Balo and Alunfa are poorly documented, and for a time had been considered Tivoid languages.

References

  1. Balo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Balo". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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