Manenguba language

Manenguba
Ngoe
Mbo
Native to Cameroon
Ethnicity Bakossi, Mbo, Bakaka, Bassossi
Native speakers
 180,000 (1995–2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
mbo – Mbo
bss – Akoose
bqz – Kaka (Central Mbo)
bsi – Sosi
Glottolog mane1268[2]
A.15[3]

Manenguba, also known as Ngoe or the Mbo cluster, is a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. It is a dialect cluster spoken by several related peoples.

The name Manenguba is the mountain range the speakers live on. Ngoe is their legendary ancestor.

Dialects

The dialects in the cluster are:[3][4]

There are many loan words from English, French and Douala.[5] When speaking of technical subjects, speakers will often revert to Pidgin English or English.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Mbo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Akoose at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kaka (Central Mbo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sosi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Manenguba". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. ↑ According to Hedinger (1987), the Bafaw-Balong language included in Guthrie zone A.15 for cultural reasons needs to be excluded from Manenguba on linguistic grounds; Maho (2009) separates it as A.141.
  5. ↑ "The Bakossi Language". Bakossi Cultural & Development Association. Retrieved 2011-02-11.
  6. ↑ Anne Schröder (2003). Status, functions, and prospects of Pidgin English: an empirical approach to language dynamics in Cameroon, Volume 1. Gunter Narr Verlag. p. 66. ISBN 3-8233-5821-9.


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