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Manta
Manta
Anta
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	(5,300 Manta cited 2001); 300 Áncá (2006)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Southwest Manta; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Manta; Tanka; Batakpa;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; myg – Manta; acb – Áncá (?)
Glottolog	mant1267 Manta; anca1236 Anca

Manta (Anta, Banta) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon.

Áncá of Nigeria may be the same language,^[1] but it is unattested.^[2]

References

1 2 3 Manta at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Áncá (?) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Anca". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.