Sardauna LGA (the Nambilla Plateau) is highly linguistically diverse, with about two dozen distinct local dialects and languages (mostly
Mambilla languages, other isolated sprinkling of other Bantoid languages, and
Jukunoid languages. •
Mambilla language •
Ambo language, a bantoid language, actually a
Tivoid language •
Áncá language •
Batu language a bantoid language, actually a
Tivoid language •
Buru language of Kurmi LGA. •
Etkywan language •
Fum language •
Tiv language •
Kpan language •
Lamnso’ language, a Western Grassfields of Cameroon language around Kumbo, with businessmen in Mambilla; •
Limbum language, a Western Grassfields of Cameroon language, at Ndu, with businessmen in Mambilla; •
Fula language, a West Atlantic language from Qanar, Mauritania and Senegambia, whose presence in Mambilla are in the immediate past traceable to cattle movements from Ngaundere (Cameroon), Banyo (Cameroon), Bavenda Province (Cameroon), and from some parts of Nigeria. •
Tigon Mbembe language of Kurmi. •
Mbungnu or Mbunip dialect of Mambilla language •
Mvanip Dialect of Mambilla language of Mvanu at Magu area: •
Ndoola language mainly in Kurmi. •
Ndunda language, a Mambilla Dialect. •
Somyev language, a Mambilla dialect •
Viti language •
Vute language (another Mambilloid language, not traditionally spoken on Mambilla Plateau) •
Yamba language, another Western Grassfields of Cameroon language extending from Donga-Mantung in Cameroon to the southern fringe of the Mambilla Plateau. ==References==