Yamba language

{{Short description|Eastern Grassfields language of Cameroon and Nigeria}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Yamba

|nativename=

|region=Cameroon, Nigeria

|ethnicity=Yamba

|speakers=80,000 in Cameroon

|date=2000

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Southern Bantoid

|fam5=Grassfields

|fam6=Eastern

|fam7=Mantungland

|iso3=yam

|dia1= Mbem

|dia2= Ntem

|dia3= Mfe

|dia4= Nkot

|dia5= Ntong

|dia6= Kwak

|glotto=yamb1251

|glottorefname=Yamba

}}

Yamba is a Grassfields language of the Northwest region of southern Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Eastern Nigeria. Mbem village has the largest population of Yamba speakers in the region.