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4

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Endangered Languages in Central Africa
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

4

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Other languages used

Mambila

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

A few

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Year of info

2007

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Critically Endangered

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6

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"The census, done in January 1997, recorded 192 people living in the hamlet of Njerep (Mvamngo). Of these, almost half represent a recent immigration population. Only four listed Njerep as a language used at home... A fifth person indicated Njerep as a language she used outside the home (she is Njerep married to a non-Njerep), and a sixth Njerep speaker is known to live outside the hamlet in another quarter of Somié... The youngest of the Njerep speakers is now in her fifties"

Year of info

1998

Location and Context

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Cameroon

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Location description

"Njerep is, or was, most recently spoken in the Ba Mambila Village of Somié... They [the Njerep] are immigrants to their present location."

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"Njerep is, or was, most recently spoken in the Ba Mambila Village of Somié... They [the Njerep] are immigrants to their present location."

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Other languages used

Mvop (Mambila), Fulfulde, French, Mbar (Mambila)

Domains of other languages

Most situations

More on context

"The Njerep speakers and their children listed Mvop, the Mambila lect (also called Ba) of the surrounding community, as the language of daily use, both inside and outside the home. Most also know some Fulfulde, and the younger ones (i.e. those who have been to school) also have some command of French, though use of these two languages is generally restricted to specific situations. Other languages, particularly the Mambila lect of Mbar, spoken mainly at Mbar on the Mambila plateau, are also spoken in the hamlet of Mvamngo"

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Semi-speakers

6

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"The survivors, it appears, are not up to the status of 'semi-speaker,' but are best viewed as 'rememberers.'"

Year of info

2000

Location and Context

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Location description

Mambila village of Somié in Adamawa Province, Cameroon

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Mambila village of Somié in Adamawa Province, Cameroon

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"In its terminal stage, the language has been used primarily for greetings, joking, occasionally to share secrets, and its songs sung to recall the past. These functions have apparently died with [the last speaker]."

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4

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4

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Year of info

2008

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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
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  4. Africa
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    Connell, Bruce A. and David Zeitlyn. 2000. "Njerep: A Postcard From the Edge." In Studies in African Linguistics, 29: 95-125. Online: http://oxford.academia.edu/DavidZeitlyn/Papers/1035537/Njerep_A_postcard_from_the_edge.
    http://oxford.academia.edu/DavidZeitlyn/Papers/1035537/Njerep_A_postcard_from_the_edge
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    Bruce Connell. 1998. "Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland." In Endangered Languages in Africa, edited by Matthias Brenzinger. 207-225. Köppe Verlag.