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Endangered Languages in Central Africa
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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~30

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Other languages used

Kwanja;

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

~35

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Ethnic Population

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More about speakers

"Twendi has approximately 35 speakers still actively using the language, with the youngest being in his mid-forties."

Year of info

1996

Location and Context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<1,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

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Second-language speakers

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Child speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Location description

Western Cameroon;

Government support

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Other writing systems

Western Cameroon;

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Other languages used

Kwanja;

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"[Cambap's] speakers are bilingual in another variety of Mambiloid, Kwanja, which is now spoken as a first language."

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Ethnic Population

<1,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from B. Connell (2000). Ethnic population: 1,000 or fewer (SIL 1991).

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Cameroon;

Coordinates

6.120244, 11.488438

Location description

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Government support

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

250

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

No data

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

Countries

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Location description

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Government support

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

No data

Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

35

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

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Speakers

Second-language speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

All

More about speakers

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Year of info

1998

Location and Context

Countries

Nigeria, Cameroon

Coordinates

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Location description

"Cambap speakers (who call themselves Camba) are found in a number of Kwanja villages, and although three villages in the area, Sango, Camba, and Ndem Ndem are said to be Camba villages, there is no concentration of Cambap speakers in any of them... According to oral tradition, Cambap... is now removed from the area where it was originally spoken... the region around Djeni Mountain."

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"Cambap speakers (who call themselves Camba) are found in a number of Kwanja villages, and although three villages in the area, Sango, Camba, and Ndem Ndem are said to be Camba villages, there is no concentration of Cambap speakers in any of them... According to oral tradition, Cambap... is now removed from the area where it was originally spoken... the region around Djeni Mountain."

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

Kwanja, Fulfulde, Mambila

Domains of other languages

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"All Cambap speakers now speak primarly Kwanja; which dialect depends on the village... In most cases it is the Sundani dialect which is favoured, though some use Ndung. Many are able to speak Kwanja dialects; in addition, many have some command of Fulfulde and some speak a variety of Mambila."

Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

30

Domains of Use

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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 Central Africa
    Bruce Connell. 2007. "Endangered Languages in Central Africa." In Language Diversity Endangered, edited by Matthias Brenzinger. 163-178. Mouton de Gruyter.
  3. Africa
    Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and F. K. Erhard Voeltz. 2007. "Africa." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. Routledge.
  4. Learning the World's Languages Before They Vanish
    Wuethrich, Bernice. 2000. "Learning the World's Languages Before They Vanish." In Science, 288: 1156-1159. Online: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3075227?origin=JSTOR-pdf.
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/3075227?origin=JSTOR-pdf
  5. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  6. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  7. From the edge: aspects of the phonetics of Cambap
    Connell, Bruce A. 2002. "From the Edge: Aspects of the Phonetics of Cambap." In Studies in African linguistics, 31 , no. 1/2: 179ff.
  8. Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland
    Bruce Connell. 1998. "Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland." In Endangered Languages in Africa, edited by Matthias Brenzinger. 207-225. Köppe Verlag.
  9. A Comparative Survey of Mambila Dialects
    Connell, B. 1996. A Comparative Survey of Mambila Dialects. Research project funded by the ESRC, # R 000 23 5283. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Oxford. Online: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/VIMS/connell/project.html
    http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/VIMS/connell/project.html