Rombi language

{{Short description|Bantu language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Lombi

|states=Cameroon

|region=Southwest region

|speakers=3,000

|date=2001

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Southern Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu (Zone A)

|fam6=Basaa (A.40)

|fam7=Rombi–Bankon

|iso3=bbi

|glotto=baro1252

|glottorefname=Barombi

|guthrie=A.41

}}

Rombi (Lombi) is a Bantu language spoken in the Meme department of the Southwest Province of southwestern Cameroon by the Barombi (Barumbi, Balombi) people. It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Bankon, which is spoken in the nearby Moungo department of Littoral Province.

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{{Languages of Cameroon}}

{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones A–B)}}

Category:Languages of Cameroon

Category:Basaa languages

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