Kenyang language

Kenyang
Nyang
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
 (65,000 cited 1992)[1]
Dialects
  • Kitwii
  • Lower Kenyang
  • Upper Kenyang
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ken
Glottolog keny1279[2]

Kenyang (Nyang, Banyang, Manyang) is the principal Southern Bantoid language of the Mamfe family. It is spoken in the Manyu and Meme departments of the Southwest Region of Cameroon.

There are three main dialects of Kenyang: Lower Kenyang, spoken in Eyumojock and Mamfe Central subdivisions, Upper Kenyang, spoken in Upper Banyang subdivision and Kitwii, spoken in Meme department. The Upper Kenyang and Lower Kenyang dialects are more closely related to each other than to Kitwii.[3] Variant names of Kitwii include, Kicwe, Twii, Bakoni, Northern Balong, Upper Balong, Manyeman, Manyemen.

References

  1. ↑ Kenyang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kenyang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Mbuagbaw, Tanyi Eyong (September 2008). "The Standardisation and Modernisation of Kenyang". SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork 2008-001. Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
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