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Native Speakers Worldwide

600-800

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What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

600-800

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Ethnic Population

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More about speakers

Due to traditional predominance of multilingualism, if we wanted to establish the number of total speakers of a given language of Lower Fungom, we would be obliged to consider the whole area and not confine ourselves to the village which gives the name to the language. This means that, at any given moment, the “speech community” associated with a particular language consists both of those resident in its associated village and of significant numbers of non-residents.

Year of info

2012

Location and Context

Countries

Cameroon

Coordinates

6.562217, 10.221600

Location description

Lower Fungom region, Cameroon; village of Kung.

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Other writing systems

Lower Fungom region, Cameroon; village of Kung.

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,750

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

6.5227,10.1074

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,750

Domains of Use

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More about speakers

1,750 (2001 SIL)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Cameroon;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,750

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