Somyev
Somyewe; Somyɛwɛ; Kila; Kilayen; Kila Yang; Somyiwe; Sombe; Sombə; Fur
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2007
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2007
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"Spoken in two villages; one in Cameroon (Torbi) and one in Nigeria (Kila Yang)."
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"Spoken in two villages; one in Cameroon (Torbi) and one in Nigeria (Kila Yang)."
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"Fufulde is a lingua franca. The primary language of their community is a Mambila lect, Maberem."
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1993
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"Spoken at the village of Kila Yang, some few kilometres west of Mayo Ndaga..."
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"Spoken at the village of Kila Yang, some few kilometres west of Mayo Ndaga..."
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"The correct name of the people and language is Somyewe."
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"The speaker population of Somyev, a language that seems to be very closely related to Wawa, has decreased from twenty or so to three in the last ten or fifteen years (Connell 1998, 2010); in 1997, there were still around fifteen to twenty speakers (Connell 1998), whereas in 2008 there were only three or four left (Bruce Connell p.c. 2008)."
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Speaker numbers are from B. Connell(2000).
2009
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Nigeria; Cameroon;
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"Known to and used only by a blacksmith community in the Mambila region... now down to its last two speakers..."
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"The speakers call themselves Somyewe"
1998
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Cameroon, Nigeria
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"Somyev... is spoken in two villages, one in Cameroon and one in Nigeria, with the majority of speakers (approximately 15) being in the Nigerian village of Kila Yang"
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"Somyev... is spoken in two villages, one in Cameroon and one in Nigeria, with the majority of speakers (approximately 15) being in the Nigerian village of Kila Yang"
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Maberem, Fulfulde, Torbi
Primary language of the community (Maberem, Torbi), lingua franca (Fulfulde)
"[The] language [was] used only by blacksmiths... Now, in the face of important goods and changing customs, the local blacksmith trade has lost its earlier importance. In earlier times... a prospective husband was required to provide his future wife's family with... 10 hoes... The loss of traditions such as this, together with the almost exclusive use of imported hoes, has ultimately affected the status of the language. Like the most people in the general region, the Somyewe use Fulfulde as a lingua franca; however the primary language of their community... is Maberem, a Mambila lect, and it is this which the younger people - the sons and daughters of the former blacksmiths - know as their first language. In the Cameroon village where Somyev is spoken, the Somyewe have similarly adopted the language of the village, Torbi, also a Mambila lect."
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- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Mambiloid Inside and Out: Mambiloid Integrity revisited and the situation of Somyev within Mambiloid. Paper presented at the symposium Genealogical language classification in Africa beyond GreenbergConnell, B. (2010). Mambiloid Inside and Out: Mambiloid Integrity revisited and the situation of Somyev within Mambiloid. Paper presented at the symposium Genealogical language classification in Africa beyond Greenberg. Berlin. Feb 2010. https://www.asaf.hu-berlin.de/afrika/linguistik-und-sprachen/veranstaltungen/greenberg-workshop/mambiloid-inside-and-out-mambiloid-integrity-revisited-and-the-situation-of-somyev-within-mambiloidhttps://www.asaf.hu-berlin.de/afrika/linguistik-und-sprachen/veranstaltungen/greenberg-workshop/mambiloid-inside-and-out-mambiloid-integrity-revisited-and-the-situation-of-somyev-within-mambiloid
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