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300-400

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Endangered Languages in West Africa
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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300-400

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Location description

Ndunda village, south of Zongo Ajiya

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Ndunda village, south of Zongo Ajiya

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

300-400

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Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Nigeria

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Location description

"Ndunda is a village some 5km. from Yerimaru, past Kakara on the tea estate road south of Zongo Ajiya."

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"Ndunda is a village some 5km. from Yerimaru, past Kakara on the tea estate road south of Zongo Ajiya."

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"...they [The Ndunda and Mvanɨp] seem to have developed a situation of stable multilingualism and religious synthesis that allows them to conserve their traditions without seeming anomalous to outsiders."

Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

300

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Year of info

2001

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

400

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Year of info

2010

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6.9482,10.9698

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Endangered Languages in West Africa
    Blench, R. (2007). Endangered Languages in West Africa. In M. Brenzinger (Ed.), Language Diversity Endangered, 140-162. Mouton de Gruyter.
  3. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  4. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
    Roger Blench. 2011. "An Atlas of Nigerian Languages." Mallam Dendo. Online: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%%20of%%20Nigerian%%20Languages-%%20ed%%20III.pdf.
    http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%%20of%%20Nigerian%%20Languages-%%20ed%%20III.pdf
  5. An introduction to the Mambiloid languages
    Connell, Bruce A. 2001. "An Introduction To the Mambiloid Languages." In Research mate in African linguistics (focus on Cameroon): a fieldworker’s tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell, in honor of Professor Larry M. Hyman, edited by Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Beban Sammy Chumbow. 79-92. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.