[1] The language is well known for its original script developed by King Njoya and his palace circle in the Kingdom of Bamum around 1895.

Cameroonian musician Claude Ndam was a native speaker of the language and sang it in his music.

[2] Bamum has tone, vowel length, diphthongs and coda consonants.

[3] Matateyou shows normal and long examples of all ten vowel qualities.

The orthography in angle brackets was based on the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages as used by Matateyou.