Baldemu language

Baldemu
Mbazlam, Baldare
Native to Cameroon
Region Far North Province
Coordinates 10°51′N 14°38′E / 10.850°N 14.633°E
Native speakers
 4  (2003)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bdn
Glottolog bald1241[3]

Baldemu, or Mbazlam, is a nearly extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. Speakers have been shifting to Fulfulde.[1]

General information

The language is or was known as Baldemu or Baldare to its speakers [4]. It is also sometimes known as Baldamu, Balda, Mbazlam, or Mbazla.

Since gradually migrating from the surrounding mountains to the village of Balda, Baldemu speakers have transitioned to Fulfulde. Baldemu speakers who migrated to Kaélé similarly shifted to Mundang[5].

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baldemu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Gravina, R. (2011). Internal classification of Chadic Biu-Mandara. In Topics in Chadic Linguistics VI, Papers from the 5th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (pp. 67-84).
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Baldemu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Brye, E. (2003). A rapid appraisal language survey of the Baldemu language. SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 15, 13.
  5. ↑ Brye, E. (2003). A rapid appraisal language survey of the Baldemu language. SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 15, 13.

Further reading

Brye, E. (2003). A rapid appraisal language survey of the Baldemu language. SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 15, 13.

Gravina, R. (2007). Classification and reconstruction in Chadic Biu-Mandara A.Topics in Chadic linguistics III: historical studies, 24-25.

Gravina, R. (2011). Internal classification of Chadic Biu-Mandara. In Topics in Chadic Linguistics VI, Papers from the 5th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (pp. 67-84).

Gravina, R. (2014). The phonology of Proto-Central Chadic: the reconstruction of the phonology and lexicon of Proto-Central Chadic, and the linguistic history of the Central Chadic languages (Doctoral dissertation, LOT: Utrecht).

Grimes, B. (2003). Biu-Mandara Languages. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195139778.013.0132

Ittmann, J. (1971). Sprichwörter der Kundu:(Kamerun) (No. 75). Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.

MacEachern, S. (2002). Residuals and resistance: Languages and history in the Mandara Mountains. When languages collide: Perspectives on language conflict, language competition and language coexistence, 21-44.

Seignobos, C., & Tourneux, H. (1984). Note sur les Baldamu et leur langue (Nord-Cameroun). Africana Marburgensia, 17(1), 13-30.

Strümpell, F. (1922). Wörterverzeichnis der heidensprachen des Mandara-gebirges (Adamaua). D. Reimer (E. Vohsen).

Tourneux, H. (1987). Note complémentaire sur les Baldamu et leur langue. Africana Marburgensia, 20(1), 52-58.

Colloque Méga-Tchad Paris, F., Tourneux, H., Barreteau, D., & O.R.S.T.O.M. (Agency :, F. (1990). Relations interethniques et culture matérielle dans le bassin du lac Tchad.

External links

Baldemu at the Endangered Languages Project