Limba, East

LMA

vigorous

Alternate Names: Yimba, Yumba

Dialects: Northern Limba (Ke-Woya-Yaka, Warawara).

Genealogy:

Niger-Congo
Atlantic-Congo
Atlantic
Southern
Limba

Demographics: 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.

Nation of Origin: Guinea

Other Comments: Quite different from West-Central Limba , of Sierra Leone. Traditional religion, Muslim.