Dimbong
[aka Bumbong, Kalong, Kaalong]Classification: Niger-Congo
·threatened
Classification: Niger-Congo
·threatened
Bumbong, Kalong, Kaalong, Lakaalong, Mbong, Lambong, Bape, Palong |
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Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Southern Bantoid |
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ISO 639-3 |
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dii |
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Information from: “Dimbong survey report” . Boone, Douglas W. (1992)
<200
"According to the village chiefs, the present resident population is less than 200 persons, about one hundred in Dii and forty in Mbong... the total number of speakers of Dimbong is fewer than three hundred persons, and many of the young people have left for the cities, or even for other countries. There are now fewer than 150 resident speakers (in two villages)."
"Children use Dimbong in play, and it is said that the young people do speak the language correctly. In the group interview at Dii, it was reported that even children born outside the area to parents from Dii could speak the mother tongue."
Balom
Bape
Bafia
Nigi
Cameroonian Pidgin English
Duala
Ewondo
French
"Centre Province of Cameroon, Mbam Division, Bafia Sub-Division. It is spoken in the Mbong quarter of the village of Kalong and in the village of Dii in the Yambeta canton."
Information from: “Benue-Congo Comparative Wordlist” . Kay Williamson (1973) University of Ibadan, Nigeria: West African Linguistic Society
Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
Two villages, Mbong and Dii, in the Canton Yambetta.
Information from: “A survey on language death in Africa” (402) . Sommer, Gabriele (1992) , Brenzinger, Matthias · Mouton de Gruyter
50000
Different speaker number counts cited range from "a handful of people" (Guthrie 1953) to circa 50 (Bryan 1959: 13) to an estimated 50000 (Welmers 1971: 816) ("which might be the total number of people belonging to the ethnic group").
"on the south bank of the River Mbam just below its confluence with the River Noun"