Manenguba language

Manenguba
Ngoe
Mbo
Native to Cameroon
Ethnicity Bakossi, Mbo, Bakaka, Bassossi
Native speakers
180,000 (1995–2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
mbo  Mbo
bss  Akoose
bqz  Kaka (Central Mbo)
bsi  Sosi
Glottolog mane1268[2]
A.15[3]

Manenguba, also known as Ngoe or the Mbo cluster, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. It is a dialect cluster spoken by several related peoples.

The name Manenguba is the mountain range the speakers live on. Ngoe is their legendary ancestor.

Dialects

The dialects in the cluster are:[3][4]

There are many loan words from English, French and Douala.[5] When speaking of technical subjects, speakers will often revert to Pidgin English or English.[6]

References

  1. Mbo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Akoose at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kaka (Central Mbo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sosi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Manenguba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. According to Hedinger (1987), the Bafaw-Balong language included in Guthrie zone A.15 for cultural reasons needs to be excluded from Manenguba on linguistic grounds; Maho (2009) separates it as A.141.
  5. "The Bakossi Language". Bakossi Cultural & Development Association. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
  6. Anne Schröder (2003). Status, functions, and prospects of Pidgin English: an empirical approach to language dynamics in Cameroon, Volume 1. Gunter Narr Verlag. p. 66. ISBN 3-8233-5821-9.

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