Mbule language

Mbule
Region southwestern Cameroon
Ethnicity Yambassa
Native speakers
 110  (2009)[1]
Niger–Congo

  • Atlantic–Congo

    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mlb
Glottolog mbul1262[2]
A.623[3]

Mbule, also called Dumbule or Mbola, is an endangered Southern Bantoid language spoken by a few people in central Cameroon.

The language is spoken in Mbola village in the South Bokito commune, Mbam-et-Inoubou department of the Centre Region, Cameroon. As reported in 2009, there were just 110 speakers of the languages, none of whom were monolingual.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mbule at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbule". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

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