Ewondo language

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Ewondo
Kolo
Region Cameroon
Native speakers
 unknown (580,000 cited 1982)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-2 ewo
ISO 639-3 ewo
A.72[2]

Ewondo or Kolo is the language of the Ewondo people (more precisely Beti be Kolo or simply Kolo-Beti) of Cameroon. The language had 577,700 native speakers in 1982. Ewondo is a trade language. Dialects include Badjia (Bakjo), Bafeuk, Bamvele (Mvele, Yezum, Yesoum), Bane, Beti, Enoah, Evouzok, Fong, Mbida-Bani, Mvete, Mvog-Niengue, Omvang, Yabekolo (Yebekolo), Yabeka, and Yabekanga. Ewondo speakers live primarily in Cameroon's Centre Region and the northern part of the Océan division in the South Region.

Ewondo is a Bantu language. It is a dialect of the Beti language (Yaunde-Fang), and is intelligible with Bulu, Eton, and Fang.

In 2011 there was a concern amongst Cameroonian linguists that the language was being displaced in the country by French.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ewondo reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  3. ↑ http://quotidien.mutations-multimedia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2962:patrimoine-la-langue-ewondo-a-son-dictionnaire&catid=58:news&Itemid=415

External links

Ewondo language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator


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