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Name: Limba, East

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Limba; Yimba; Yumba

Spoken in: Guinea, Sierra Leone

Number of speakers: 4,000 in Guinea (Johnstone 1993). 2,000 speakers of the Ke subdialect of Northern Limba (1991 J. Kaiser). Population total all countries: 4,600 (Ethnologue)

Code: lma

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)

Parent Subgroup: Limba (limb)

Child Dialects: Northern Limba; Warawara; Ke-Woya-Yaka (lma-nor) Southern Limba; Biriwa-Saroko-Kalantuba-Sunko (lma-sou)

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