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Endangered Languages in Central Africa
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"Remembered best by one non-native speaker"

Year of info

2007

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Critically Endangered

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3

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Cameroon

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6.5718,11.8267

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Non-monolingual speakers

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"Bung has three people who remember it; the one who apparently knows it best is not a native speaker, though he learned it relatively young."

Year of info

1998

Location and Context

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Cameroon

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"[Bung] was spoken at the village of Boung on the Adamawa plateau; it is not known whether it was ever more widespread."

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"[Bung] was spoken at the village of Boung on the Adamawa plateau; it is not known whether it was ever more widespread."

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Other languages used

Kwanja, Fulfulde

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"The language spoken at Boung today is the Ndung lect of Kwanja. As elsewhere in the wider region, Fulfulde is also spoken."

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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. 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. 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.