Swo language

Not to be confused with So language (disambiguation).
Swo
So
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
9,000 (1992)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sox
Glottolog soca1235[2]
A.82[3]

Swo is a Bantu language of the Akonolinga area,[4] Cameroon. Spellings of the name are quite variable, including So, Sso, Shwo, and Fo. One dialect has been influenced by Beti.

References

  1. Swo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "So (Cameroon)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Bryan, Margaret Arminel, compiler, The Bantu Languages of Africa, Oxford University Press, 1959.


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