Mbule, also called Dumbule or Mbola, is an endangered
Southern Bantoid
Southern Bantoid (or South Bantoid) is a branch of the Bantoid language family. It consists of the Bantu languages along with several small branches and isolates of eastern Nigeria and west-central Cameroon (though the affiliation of some branch ...
language spoken by a few people in central
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west- central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; th ...
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The language is spoken in
Mbola village in the South
Bokito commune,
Mbam-et-Inoubou
Mbam-et-Inoubou is a department of Centre Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of 7,125 km and as of 2001 had a total population of 153,020. The capital of the department lies at Bafia.
Subdivisions
The department is divided adm ...
department of the
Centre Region, Cameroon
The Centre Region (french: région du Centre) occupies 69,000 km2 of the central plains of the Republic of Cameroon. It is bordered to the north by the Adamawa Region, to the south by the South Region, to the east by the East Region, and t ...
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As reported in 2009, there were just 110 speakers of the language, none of whom were monolingual.
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References
Further reading
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Mbam languages
Languages of Cameroon
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