Endangered Languages Project - Mvanip

Mvanip

^{[aka Mvanöp, Mvanon, Mvanlip]}

Classification: Niger-Congo

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threatened

ALSO KNOWN AS		Mvanöp, Mvanon, Mvanlip, Mvano, Magu
CLASSIFICATION		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Northern Bantoid
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		mcj
DOWNLOAD		As csv
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Information from: “Endangered Languages in West Africa” (140-162 ch. 7) . Roger Blench (2007) , Matthias Brenzinger · Mouton de Gruyter

Threatened

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
100

TRANSMISSION
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Zongo Ajiya town in the northwest of the Mambila Plateau in southeastern Nigeria

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~100
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<1,000
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
100
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 1999

Threatened

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~100
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"The Mvanɨp people are only 100 (chief's estimate) consisting of a few households in one quarter of Zongo Ajiya."

TRANSMISSION
SPEAKER ATTITUDE: Positive
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Almost all individuals seemed to be fluent in the other languages of Zongo Ajiya, Fulfulde, Mambila and Ndoro. Despite this, the language seems to be alive - the Jauro assured us that all the children still speak it, and we observed this to be true."

PLACES: Nigeria

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "...spoken in Zongo Ajiya in the northwest of the Mambila Plateau in southeastern Nigeria."

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing