Nso language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

  • Atlantic - Congo Benue - Congo Bantoide languages Südbantoide languages Grassland languages Ting

Lns

The Lamnso ( proper name Lamnsɔ ') is the language of the Nso people of Cameroon.

A few also live in Nigeria. Lamnso is a grassland language with ten major noun classes. The ISO 639-3 code is lns. This language is still spoken by about 100,000 people.

Phrases

Animal names

  • Baar: Leopard
  • Jwi: Dog
  • Kan: Monkey
  • Kitam: Elephant
  • Mbvèreh: Leo
  • Shishuuiy: Duica
  • Bvey: Geiss

Noun

  • Shuy sun
  • Midzev: Water
  • Ngwa: Book
  • Narnar: Pineapple
  • Wunlav: House
  • Kitukelav: Fireplace
  • Nsarlav: Floor
  • Shulav: Door
  • Nta: Chair
  • Gham: rugs
  • Ton: Cookware
  • Long: disk
  • Bar: Glass

Adjectives

  • Lum: hot
  • Rə: cold

Bibliography

  • McGarrity, Laura and Botne, Robert ( 2001). Between Agreement and Case Marking in Lamnso (PDF, 520 kB). IUWPL 3: Explorations in African Linguistics: From Lamnso 'to Sesotho (2001), edited by Robert Botne and Rose Vondrasek, pp. 53-70. Bloomington, IN: Noun classes and categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Amsterdam:. J. Benjamins.
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