Mbule language

Mbule
Region southwestern Cameroon
Ethnicity Yambassa
Native speakers
110 (2009)[1]
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 2 Mbule at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mbule". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

Further reading

  • BOONE, Douglas W. (1992). "A Sociolinguistic Survey in Mbola: Mbule Survey Report" (PDF). SIL Cameroon. Retrieved 2011-02-11.


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