Nchumbulu language

Nchumbulu is a highly endangered language that is spoken in Ghana by the Brong Ahafo region west of Lake Volta near Kaplang and is spoken in three villages in the area. ^{[1] [2]}

Classification

Nchumbulu
Native to	Ghana
Native speakers	1,800 (2003)[3]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Kwa Nyo Potou–Tano Tano Guang North Nchumbulu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nlu
Glottolog	nchu1238[4]

Nchumbulu is a Guang language of Ghana that is part of the North Guang subdivision of the language family. ^[5]

Resources

• Batibo, H. (2004). The role of minority languages in education and development in Africa. The language web: Essays in honour of Victor Webb, 26-33.
• Blench, R. (2007). Endangered languages in West Africa. Language diversity endangered
• Goody, Jack R. (1963). Ethnological Notes on the distribution of the Guang Languages. Journal of African Languages 2. 173-189.
• Edu-Buandoh, Dora Francisca. Multilingualism in Ghana: An ethnographic study of college students at the University of Cape Coast. ProQuest, 2006.

References

1. Batibo, Herman Language Decline and Death in Africa: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges (2005)
2. Nchumbulu Ethnologue
3. Nchumbulu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
4. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nchumbulu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
5. Ansah, M. A., & Agyeman, N. A. (2015). Ghana language-in-education policy: The survival of two South Guan minority dialects. In: Per Linguam 31(1), 89.

External Links

http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4622 http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/5372 http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/50335