Ewondo language

Spoken in

• Niger - Congo languages

• Ewondo

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Ewo

Ewo

Ewondo (also Ewundu, Yaounde, Yaounde and Yaunde ) is a Bantu language spoken by the approximately 600,000 speakers ( census 1982) of the same ethnic group in southern Cameroon is spoken.

The Ewondo live mainly in the vicinity of the capital Yaoundé, which they gave the name, in the southeast of the province center and the north of the province of Sud.

It serves as a lingua franca in the capital and in the center and south of the country.

A well-known representative of the Ewondo language of the colonial era was Charles Atangana, who exercised both in the German colony of Cameroon and the French reign line functions as " High Chief " (Chef Supérieur ) within its group.

Classification

Ewondo is a Northwest Bantu language and belongs to Yaunde - fishing group that is classified as Guthrie Zone A70.

She has the dialects Badjia (also Bakjo ) Bafeuk, Bamvele (also Mvele, Yezum and Yesoum ), Bane, Beti, Fong, Mbida - Bani, Mvete, Mvog - Niengue, Omvang, Yabekolo (also Yebekolo ) Yabeka, Yabekanga, Enoah and Evouzok.