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Cultural Ecologies of Endangered Languages: the Case of Wawa and Njanga
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

4

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6

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Cameroon

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6.634598, 11.675720

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Sundani;

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Cameroon

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Location description

"Village of Mbondjaga, Adamawa Province, Cameroon"

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"Village of Mbondjaga, Adamawa Province, Cameroon"

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Severely Endangered

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17

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2001

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Severely Endangered

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<20

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2007

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Critically Endangered

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2

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Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

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Year of info

1998

Location and Context

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Cameroon

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"Nigeria-Cameroon borderland: Mambila region... Njanga is spoken only in the village of Mbondjanga."

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"Nigeria-Cameroon borderland: Mambila region... Njanga is spoken only in the village of Mbondjanga."

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Other languages used

Sundani Kwanja

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"[Njanga] is considered to be a dialect of Kwanja... The Njanga have increasingly intermarried with the Sundani, another Kwanja group, and their dialect of Kwanja is the one now used almost exclusively in the village. A small and decreasing population, together with (or resulting in) the increasing intermarriage with Sundani has apparently been the primary factor in the decline of this language."

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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. Cultural Ecologies of Endangered Languages: the Case of Wawa and Njanga
    Sascha Sebastian Griffiths and Laura Robson. 2010. "Cultural Ecologies of Endangered Languages: the Case of Wawa and Njanga." In Anthropological Linguistics, 52: 217-238. Online: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v052/52.2.griffiths.html.
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/anthropological_linguistics/v052/52.2.griffiths.html
  5. 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.
  6. 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.