Beban Sammy Chumbow (11 September 1943)[1] is a linguist from Cameroon.
Chumbow was born on 11 September 1943 in Mezam Division of the North-West region of Cameroon.
[1] He completed his primary education in the North-West and then went to Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo for his undergraduate studies in Roman Philology.
[1] In 1986, Chumbow joined the department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaounde I.
[3] He has been a member of the Linguistic Society of America and the New York Academy of Sciences.