Mambila is a dialect chain stretching across Nigeria and Cameroon. It is one of the Mambiloid languages, a branch of Benue–Congo. Notable dialects are... 5 KB (413 words) - 12:48, 30 May 2022 |
Cameroon is home to at least 250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages... 78 KB (2,403 words) - 08:59, 4 March 2024 |
Nyorrong-Lii-Ngum area of Cameroon and are traceable to the Bang District of Mambilla Plateau. Today, the preferred ethnonym is spelt Mambila in Cameroon and Mambilla... 15 KB (1,933 words) - 11:51, 14 February 2024 |
Mambilla Plateau (redirect from Mambila Plateau) 1960s. Mambila people Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve Bantu expansion Mambilla Plateau. Wikimapia.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-09. Chapter IX. The Mambila, David... 9 KB (1,091 words) - 15:32, 4 August 2023 |
Adamawa Region (redirect from Adamawa Province, Cameroon) including the Gotes and Mambilas, contain mixtures of several soil types. The Adamawa is sometimes dubbed the "water tower" of Cameroon, since a large number... 38 KB (5,100 words) - 15:05, 14 April 2024 |
to a study in 2007, only four people spoke this language. All of them were elderly. The Mambila language, also known as Mvop, has instead supplanted Njerep... 9 KB (1,000 words) - 20:31, 13 August 2023 |
Methods of divination (category Articles containing Cameroon Mambila-language text) (Greek murmēx, ant + manteía, prophecy) nggàm: by spider or crab behavior (Mambila nggàm, divination) ophidiomancy/ophiomancy: by snakes behavior (Greek ophis... 62 KB (4,795 words) - 15:05, 17 March 2024 |
Taraba State (category Articles containing French-language text) Mararaba, the Rafin Kada-Gembu Rd southeast from Donga via Mararaba, and the Mambila-Plateau Rd. Airports Jalingo Airport The major occupation of the people... 23 KB (1,739 words) - 02:58, 8 April 2024 |
Cameroon. Despite the confusion, these two languages are unrelated. The most closely related language is Ndunda, which is also located on the Mambila... 3 KB (337 words) - 13:00, 20 May 2022 |
Mambiloid language of two villages, one in Nigeria and one in Cameroon, that is spoken by a caste of blacksmiths that live among the Mambila. Although... 1 KB (115 words) - 17:42, 8 April 2020 |
youngest of whom were born in the 1940s. Twendi is a Mambiloid language belonging to the Mambila group. Speakers consider Twendi to be a dialect of Kwanja... 2 KB (162 words) - 11:06, 17 January 2023 |
The Kasabe language is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Mambila in the Nyalang area. The last speaker, a man named Bogon, died... 1 KB (74 words) - 06:37, 1 February 2024 |
traditional musical instruments in Cameroon, based primarily on the research of Roger Blench (2009). Idiophones of Cameroon include percussion instruments... 19 KB (2,158 words) - 16:32, 22 March 2024 |
in Cameroon Guy Madjo Marcel Mahouvé Maka people Makaa–Njem languages Makossa Jean Makoun Malaba, Cameroon Malgbe language Hugo Mamba-Schlick Mambila people... 37 KB (4,075 words) - 06:32, 24 February 2024 |
Sardauna, Taraba State (section Languages) local languages (mostly Mambilla languages, other Bantoid languages, and Jukunoid languages. Mambila language Ambo language Áncá language Batu language Buru... 5 KB (289 words) - 01:21, 2 April 2024 |
Kwanja (Konja) is a Mambiloid language of Cameroon. Njanga (Nyanjang) is a distinct dialect. Kwanja at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)... 666 bytes (25 words) - 16:04, 11 December 2021 |
hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share... 64 KB (7,300 words) - 00:31, 11 February 2024 |
similar phonology are: Mambila, Suga, Kwanja, Vute, Kamkam, Twendi and Wawa. Most of these languages are found around the Mambila Plateau region. Ndola... 3 KB (334 words) - 04:46, 10 March 2024 |
Dorofi. Activities in Dorofi include traditional dances of the Fulani, Mambila and Kaka which are celebrated during Muslim and Christian festive seasons... 4 KB (220 words) - 22:16, 28 January 2023 |
Vute is a Mambiloid language of Cameroon and Gabon, with a thousand speakers in Nigeria. The orthography was standardized on March 9, 1979. Noted dialect... 7 KB (203 words) - 22:33, 27 April 2023 |
Sister exchange (section Mambila) traders, on the plateau region of Benin (Mbelime), Nigeria and Cameroon (Tiv, Mambila); it is also used in DRC and Uganda (Amba, Mbuti); and on the border... 22 KB (2,945 words) - 13:04, 30 March 2024 |
The Tivoid languages are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in parts of Nigeria and Cameroon. The subfamily takes its name after Tiv, the... 8 KB (336 words) - 23:15, 16 January 2024 |
(Bungnu), also known as Kamkam, is a Mambiloid language of Nigeria, with an unknown number of speakers in Cameroon. Mbongno at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription... 769 bytes (31 words) - 00:41, 13 April 2020 |
Wawa is a Mambiloid language spoken in a region of Cameroon and just inside bordering Nigeria used by about 3,000 people in three main dialects. All speakers... 1 KB (65 words) - 06:15, 22 January 2021 |
Bantu expansion (section Atlantic–Congo languages) of the Bantu languages, which comprise a branch of the Atlantic-Congo language family, was located in the southern regions of Cameroon. Genetic evidence... 41 KB (4,262 words) - 15:21, 8 April 2024 |
Levirate marriage (category Articles with Indonesian-language sources (id)) live in northern part of Central African Republic. Among the Mambila of northern Cameroon, in regard to "Inheritance of wives: both levirates are practised... 21 KB (2,721 words) - 18:24, 9 March 2024 |
instrument belonging in lamellophone class, traditional to the Mambila people of Cameroon. The wooden base are generally made of thin woods or hollow raffia... 3 KB (263 words) - 14:08, 31 March 2024 |