Bamileke languages

Bamileke is a group of languages ​​and dialects, which are spoken by the people of the Bamileke in the western grasslands of Cameroon. You are Semibantu languages ​​, so bantoide languages ​​that do not belong to the Bantu languages.

The Bamileke languages ​​belong to the family of languages ​​of the Niger - Congo languages ​​. Here they are for OstBenue -Congo branch of the Atlantic - Congo languages ​​. Within the bantoiden languages ​​they belong to the eastern grasslands languages.

As for the language Fe'fe ', Ghɔmálá ' Kwa ', Mədʉmba, Məgaka, Nda'nda ', NGOMBA, Ngombale and Bamboutos' dialect cluster of Yɛmba, Ngyɛmbɔɔŋ and Ngwe. The main languages ​​of the Bamileke are (with the number of alternative names, the ISO language code and the numbers of speakers according to SIL International):

  • Fe'fe ' ( Fotuni, Bafang, Nufi ​​) [ fmp ] ( 125,000 )
  • Ghomálá ' ( Banjun - Baham, balum, Mahum ) [ bbj ] ( 250,000 )
  • Kwa ' ( Bakwa ) [ bko ] ( under 10,000 )
  • Medumba ( Bagangte, Batongtu, Ndzubuga ) [ BYV ] ( 210,000 )
  • Mengaka ( Megaka, Ghap, Benzing ) [ xmg ] (20,000 )
  • Nda'nda ' [ nnz ] (10,000 )
  • Ngiemboon ( Nguemba ) [ nnh ] (100,000)
  • NGOMBA ( Ndaa ) [ jgo ] ( 65,000 )
  • Ngombale [ nla ] ( 65,000 )
  • Ngwe ( Nwe, photo, Fontem, Fongondeng, Fomopea ) [ nwe ] ( 50,000 )
  • Yemba ( Dschang, FOEN, Atsang - Bangwa ) [ ybb ] ( 300000 )

For genetic classification see the article grassland languages ​​, the ISO code of the language group is BAI.

Some of the Bamileke languages ​​were verschriftlicht since the independence of Cameroon. The national standard colloquial languages ​​, however, are - as in all of Cameroon - French and English.

Websites

  • Bamileke on the Ethnologue
  • Bamileke Culture ( in French)
  • PanAfriL10n page on Bamileke
  • Language family
  • Prairie languages
Bamileke people Atlantic languages Medumba language Məgaka language Ngomba language Ngombale language Yemba language Ngiemboon language Ngwe language
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