Isubu
Su; Isu; Isuwu; Suwu; Subu; Bimbia;
Niger-Congo; Atlantic-Congo; Benue-Congo; Southern Bantoid
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2006
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Bimbia, Fako Division, South West Province, Cameroon
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"Isubu is used on a daily basis by the adults who are able to speak it within Bimbia. But the number of people living in Bimbia today is rather low. [...] Taken as a whole, the attitudes of the community members towards Bubia and Isubu are negative. However, adults are very sad about the situation and would have loved it to be different. Consequently, they are open to solutions that will remedy the situation and offer collaboration to any attempt to safeguard their linguistic patrimony. Obviously, they attach considerable value to their cultural heritage, but the trend is too strong and they feel that they cannot resist the influence of Kamtok, Mokpe and the two official languages: to succeed in the metropolises, one needs French and English. "
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Cameroon
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"Today it is spoken by only a few speakers, including some children"
2007
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"Three villages on the coast and the islands on the foot of Mount Cameroon"
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"Three villages on the coast and the islands on the foot of Mount Cameroon"
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"There are probably about 600 speakers and semi-speakers."
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Cameroon
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"Spoken in a single village, Bimbia, which is a few miles along the coast from Limbe, in northwest Cameroun."
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"Spoken in a single village, Bimbia, which is a few miles along the coast from Limbe, in northwest Cameroun."
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"The Isu language is clearly related to Mokpe, or Bakweri, and indeed it has largely disappeared in favour Mokpe and Pidgin English."
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- 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 University2012. "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."
- Bubia/IsubuAtindogbé, Gratien, Doris Richter genannt Kemmermann, Nancy Nyindem and Anne Storch. 2006. "Bubia/Isubu." Online: http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/bubia_isubu/.http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/bubia_isubu/
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, 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
- Isu fish namesRoger Blench. 2010. "Isu Fish Names." Online: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantu/A20/Isu/Isu%%20fish%%20names.pdf.http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantu/A20/Isu/Isu%%20fish%%20names.pdf
- Polyglotta Africana or Comparative Vocabulary of Nearly Three Hundred Words and Phrases in more than One Hundred Distinct African LanguagesKoelle, Sigismund W. 1854. "Polyglotta Africana or Comparative Vocabulary of Nearly Three Hundred Words and Phrases in More Than One Hundred Distinct African Languages." London: Church Missionary House.
- Knowledge and theories of astronomy on the part of the Isubu natives of the western slopes of the Cameroon Mountains, in German West Africa (Kamerun)Keller, I. and M. Huber. 1903. "Knowledge and Theories of Astronomy On the Part of the Isubu Natives of the Western Slopes of the Cameroon Mountains, in German West Africa (Kamerun)." In Journal of the African Soc., 3 , no. 9: 59-61.
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