Nyanjang
[también conocido como Njang, Njanga,]Clasificación: Niger-Congo
·en peligro crítico de extinción
Clasificación: Niger-Congo
·en peligro crítico de extinción
Njang, Njanga |
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Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Northern Bantoid |
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La información está incompleta “Cultural Ecologies of Endangered Languages: the Case of Wawa and Njanga” (217-238) . Sascha Sebastian Griffiths and Laura Robson (2010)
"Njanga speakers have remained relatively isolated from the direct influence of the Fulbe. Their village is comparatively underdeveloped and less modernized. Indirectly, however, population movements stimulated by the Fulbe arrival in the region brought Njanga speakers into closer contact with speakers of the neighboring dialect Sundani, which has now fully replaced the Njanga... There are now only four remaining speakers of Njanga plus six rememberers, and it has no function, everyday or ceremonial, that is not met by the replacement language. For this reason, Njanga is moribund. Unlike Wawa, the threat to Njanga is not Fulfulde– although almost all people of Mbondjanga speak Fulfulde–but Sundani, a sister dialect and the replacement language."
Sundani;
"Kwanja is a Mambiloid language spoken in around twenty-five villages spread between Banyo on the Adamawa Plateau of Cameroon and Bankim on the Tikar Plain. Njanga, however, is, and always has been, spoken only in one particular Kwanja village, Mbondjanga."
La información está incompleta “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
"Village of Mbondjaga, Adamawa Province, Cameroon"
La información está incompleta “Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland” (207-225) . Bruce Connell (1998) , Matthias Brenzinger · Köppe Verlag
"It is spoken only by the chief of Mbondjanga and his notable, or dignitary, on a more or less daily basis ("i.e. at some time during the day"); it is not known to what extent it may be understood by older people in the village."
Sundani Kwanja
"[Njanga] is considered to be a dialect of Kwanja... The Njanga have increasingly intermarried with the Sundani, another Kwanja group, and their dialect of Kwanja is the one now used almost exclusively in the village. A small and decreasing population, together with (or resulting in) the increasing intermarriage with Sundani has apparently been the primary factor in the decline of this language."
"Nigeria-Cameroon borderland: Mambila region... Njanga is spoken only in the village of Mbondjanga."
La información está incompleta “An introduction to the Mambiloid languages” (79-92) . Connell, Bruce A. (2001) , Mutaka, Ngessimo M. and Chumbow, Beban Sammy · Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
The language is "no longer spoken at the village level, but essentially used only in the home, or perhaps among friends."