Mono language (Cameroon)

Not to be confused with Mono language (disambiguation).
Mono
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
300 Mono (2001)[1]
50 Dama (older adults, no date)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Either:
mru  Mono
dmm  Dama
Glottolog mono1269  (Mono)[2]
dama1267  (Dama)[3]

Mono is a moribund Mbum language spoken by older adults in northern Cameroon. A probable dialect, Dama, may already be extinct.

References

  1. 1 2 Mono at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
    Dama at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mono". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dama". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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