Mungbam language
| Mungbam | |
|---|---|
| Abar | |
| Missong | |
| Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 1,900 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mij |
| Glottolog |
abar1238[2] |
Mungbam is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is traditionally classified as a Western Beboid language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family.
The language is spoken in five villages, Abar, Missong, Munken, Ngun, and Za’; speakers of each of these consider their speech to be distinct, so there is no name for the language as a whole. The village names Abar and Missong are sometimes used. The name "Mungbam" is a quasi-acronym of the village names. Good (2009) suggests using the word for 'mouth', Fən, as a name for the language, since that word is not shared with other Beboid languages, but as of 2012 supported 'Mungbam'.[3]
References
- ↑ Mungbam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Abar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑
- Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
- Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009. 'Reassessing Western Beboid'. Bantu III.
- Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008. 'Western Beboid and African language classification'. LSA.
External links
- Abar and Missong basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- ELAR archive of Ngun (a variety of Mungbam) language documentation materials
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