Ngumba language
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{{language |name=Ngumba |states=Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea |region=along the coast at the border between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea |speakers=70,000 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic-Congo |fam3=Volta-Congo |fam4=Benue-Congo |fam5=Bantoid |fam6=Southern |fam7=Narrow Bantu |fam8=Northwest |iso2=bnt|iso3=nmg}}
Ngumba is a language of Cameroon, spoken in the south along the coast and at the border with Equatorial Guinea by some 70 000 Ngumba, a people of the Maka-Njem ethnic group. Ngumba is a tonal language. As a Narrow Bantu language, it has noun class system. The Ngumba noun class system is somewhat reduced, having retained only 6 genders (a gender being a pairing of a singular and a plural noun class).Template:Nc-lang-stub