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Ring Languages
The Ring or Ring Road languages, spoken in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon, form a branch of the Narrow Grassfields languages. The best-known Ring language is Kom language (Cameroon), Kom. The family is named after the old Ring Road (Cameroon), Ring Road of central Cameroon. Languages *Centre: Babanki language, Babanki, Mmen language, Mmen, Kom language (Cameroon), Kom, Mbessa language, Mbessa, Bum language, Bum, Kung language (Cameroon), Kung, Kuk language, Kuk, Oku language, Oku *East: Nso language, Nso (Lamnso') *South: Vengo language, Vengo, Wushi language, Wushi, Bamunka language, Bamunka, Kenswei Nsei language, Kenswei Nsei *West: Aghem language, Aghem, Isu language, Isu, Laimbue language, Laimbue, Weh language, Weh, Zhoa language, Zhoa See also *Wiktionary:Appendix:List of Proto-Ring reconstructions, List of Proto-Ring reconstructions (Wiktionary) References External links *Ethnographic information on the Bum peopl Ring languages, Grassfields Bantu languages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Cameroon's population of nearly 31 million people speak 250 native languages, in addition to the national tongues of English and French, or both. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad and the Baka people (Cameroon and Gabon), Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese discoveries, Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area ''Rio dos Camarões'' (''Shrimp River''), which became ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuk Language
Kuk is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. Proposed Kumfutu language In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some people from the village of Kumfutu (traditionally an ethnic Kuk village) were discontent with Kuk leadership and founded the Kumfutu Student Association as a result. The peopole of Kumfutu wanted to become independent from the Kuk, and thus proposed a new "Kumfutu" language. However, by 2010, the people of Kumfutu were no longer in conflict with the Kuk leadership.Good, Jeff. 2021. Individual-level lexical variation in the Bantu homeland and its implications for the development of Benue-Congo'Diedrich Westermann-Workshop(West-central African linguistic history between Macro-Sudan Belt and Niger-Congo: commemorating Diedrich Westermann’s legacy and the 100th anniversary of the Berlin professorship for African languages), 4-6 November 2021, Humboldt University of Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhoa Language
Zhoa is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... References Ring languages Languages of Cameroon {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weh Language
Weh is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... References Ring languages Languages of Cameroon {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laimbue Language
Laimbue is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... References Ring languages Languages of Cameroon {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isu Language
Isu is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... Writing system References Ring languages Languages of Cameroon {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aghem Language
Aghem (Wum or Yum) is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in the Wum Central Sub-division in Menchum Division of the North West Region of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... Phonology Consonants The consonants of Aghem are shown below. Vowels Aghem has two tones. High tone and low tone. References External links Miscellaneous Links Aghem language on AFADA USA websiteEntries for Aghem in inventories of languages and people groups Aghem language entry in GlottologAghem language entry in the EthnologueOLAC (Open Language Archives) resources in and about the Aghem languageLinguistic papers on the Aghem language Phonological Reconstruction and the Aghem Central Vowels by David Thormoset Focus Marking in Aghem: Syntax or Semantics? by Larry M. Hym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenswei Nsei Language
Kenswei Nsei (Kensense), also Nsei or Mesing (Bamessing), is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... Phonology Consonants Vowels Tone Nsei has both lexical and grammatical tone. There are at least two level tones (high, low, and possibly mid) and two contour tones (falling and rising). References Further reading * * * * Ring languages Languages of Cameroon {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamunka Language
The Bamunka language, ''Ŋgieməkɔʼkə'' , is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... Phonology Consonants * and are bilabial, whereas and are labiodental. * and are palatal, whereas , , , and are post-alveolar. Vowels Tones In addition, Munka has five phonemic tones: three level tones (high, mid, and low) and two contour tones (rising, and falling). Orthography Ngeloh Takwe proposed this orthography in her post-graduate diploma dissertation in 2002. References Further reading * * * * * * Ring languages Languages of Cameroon {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wushi Language
Wushi (Babessi) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R .... It might be the same language as adjacent, unattested Nshi across the border in Nigeria. References Ring languages Languages of Cameroon {{gras-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vengo Language
Vengo (), or Babungo, is a Grassfields language and the language of the Vengo people from the village of Babungo in the Cameroonian Grassfields. The spelling Bamungo is also often found. In their own language, the Vengo people call their village ''vengo'' (), and their language ''ghang vengo'' (), which means "language of the Vengo"; it is thus officially listed under the name ''Vengo'' or ''Vengoo''. Other names for the language are ''Vengi, Pengo, Ngo, Nguu, Ngwa, Nge''. Vengo is spoken by about 14,000 people. Because the Babungo people all live closely together and concentrate only in and around Vengo village, there are only small dialectical variations in their speech. The Vengo language uses different tone pitches, which form a distinctive feature for the meaning of the words. In the Vengo tone system, there are eight distinctive pitch types or pitch sequences on vowels: high, mid, low, high-mid, high-low, low-falling, low-high, low-high-mid. The use of the language (and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |