Yemba is a member of the Eastern Grassfields group of the Southern Bantoid languages. It is spoken by about 500,000 people in the southwest of Cameroon, particularly in the Lebialem Department in the Southwest Region, and around the town of Dschang in Menoua Department in the West Region.
Yemba is also known as Yɛmba, Yémba, Ashuŋne yémba, Dschang or Bamiléké Dschang. Dialects include Central Yemba, Eastern Yemba, Western Yemba, Southern Yemba and South Eastern Yemba.
A way to write Yemba was developed by Maurice Tadadjeu, co-creator of the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages in the late 1970s, and Steven Bird, who between them produced a French-Yemba dictionary. The Yemba alphabet combines Latin letters and letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
Some details of Yemba supplied by Michael Peter Füstumum
Information about Yemba | Numbers
Information about the Yemba language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemba_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemba
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Йемба
http://eveilyemba.org/langue-yemba/
https://bafou.org/index.php/us-coutumes/yemba
Aghem, Ambele, Awing, Baba, Babanki, Bambalang, Bamukumbit, Bamum, Bamunka, Bangolan, Feʼfeʼ, Fut, Ghomalaʼ, Kenswei Nsei, Kom, Kwaʼ, Limbum, Mfumte, Mmen, Ndemli, Ngaʼka, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, Ngombale, Nso, Oku, Vengo, Yamba, Yemba
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page last modified: 08.10.25
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