• 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...
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    Cameroon is home to at least 250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages...
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  • 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...
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    1960s. Mambila people Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve Bantu expansion Mambilla Plateau. Wikimapia.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-09. Chapter IX. The Mambila, David...
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    languages are languages spoken by the Mambila and related peoples mostly in eastern Nigeria and in Cameroon. In Nigeria the largest group is Mambila (there...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • Cameroon. Despite the confusion, these two languages are unrelated. The most closely related language is Ndunda, which is also located on the Mambila...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • traditional musical instruments in Cameroon, based primarily on the research of Roger Blench (2009). Idiophones of Cameroon include percussion instruments...
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    autochthonous names to avoid a distortion of their history and identity. The Mambila people make up the largest single ethnic group in the town, followed by...
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  • in Cameroon Guy Madjo Marcel Mahouvé Maka people Makaa–Njem languages Makossa Jean Makoun Malaba, Cameroon Malgbe language Hugo Mamba-Schlick Mambila people...
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  • local languages (mostly Mambilla languages, other Bantoid languages, and Jukunoid languages. Mambila language Ambo language Áncá language Batu language Buru...
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  • Kwanja (Konja) is a Mambiloid language of Cameroon. Njanga (Nyanjang) is a distinct dialect. Kwanja at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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    Grassfields languages (or Wide Grassfields languages) are a branch of the Southern Bantoid languages spoken in the Western High Plateau of Cameroon and some...
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    hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa. It unites the Mande languages, the Atlantic–Congo languages (which share...
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  • similar phonology are: Mambila, Suga, Kwanja, Vute, Kamkam, Twendi and Wawa. Most of these languages are found around the Mambila Plateau region. Ndola...
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  • Dorofi. Activities in Dorofi include traditional dances of the Fulani, Mambila and Kaka which are celebrated during Muslim and Christian festive seasons...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • (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...
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  • 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...
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    of the Bantu languages, which comprise a branch of the Atlantic-Congo language family, was located in the southern regions of Cameroon. Genetic evidence...
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  • 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...
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    instrument belonging in lamellophone class, traditional to the Mambila people of Cameroon. The wooden base are generally made of thin woods or hollow raffia...
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