Eton language
Not to be confused with Eton language (Vanuatu).
| Eton | |
|---|---|
| Region | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 250,000 (2005 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
eto |
| Glottolog |
eton1253[2] |
A.71[3] | |
Eton, or Ìtón, is a Bantu language spoken by the Eton people of Cameroon.[4]
It is mutually intelligible with Ewondo, a fact which may have delayed its study for some time.
Eton speakers inhabit the Lekié department of the Centre Region of Cameroon, an area north of the capital Yaoundé bounded in the north by the Sanaga River.
Ethnologue cites four dialects of Eton, but its speakers generally distinguish two, a northern and a southern dialect, the latter of which is closer to the Ewondo language.
References
- ↑ Eton at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eton (Cameroon)". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ↑ Velde, Mark L. O. Van de. A Grammar of Eton, p. 3
- Velde, Mark L. O. Van de. A Grammar of Eton, Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. ISBN 978-3-11-020440-7