Mundabli-Mufu
[aka Ji, Bu,]Classification: Niger-Congo
·endangered
Classification: Niger-Congo
·endangered
Ji, Bu |
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Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Southern Bantoid |
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Information from: “What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields” . Jeff Good and Pierpaolo DiCarlo (2012)
Due to traditional predominance of multilingualism, if we wanted to establish the number of total speakers of a given language of Lower Fungom, we would be obliged to consider the whole area and not confine ourselves to the village which gives the name to the language. This means that, at any given moment, the “speech community” associated with a particular language consists both of those resident in its associated village and of significant numbers of non-residents.
Lower Fungom region, Cameroon; villages of Mundabli and Mufu.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
Information from: “World Oral Literature Project” .
Information from: “The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview” . Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Patrick and Nguanguep, Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Dicarlo, Pierpaolo (2011)
Mundabli village: 350–450 speakers; Mufu village: 80–150 speakers; Buu village: 100–200 speakers. "The work that has been done on Mufu and Buu indicates that the varieties Mufu and Mundabli can probably be considered dialects of the same language, while Buu is probably best considered a distinct language. Speaker reports match our own linguistic assessment in this regard."
"It seems likely that the linguistic variety spoken in Buu is a distinct, though closely related, language from the varieties spoken in Mundabli and Mufu."
Information from: “A rapid appraisal survey of western Beboid languages (Menchum Division, Northwest Province)” (40) . Hamm, Cameron, and Diller, Jason and Jordan-Diller, Kari and a Tiati, Ferdinand Assako (2001)
"The people prefer using their MT in the home, in the field, and with friends of the same age. But the youth from... Mundabli... speak Pidgin as well as their MT with friends of the same age. Mundabli speakers explain that it is the educated youth who speak Pidgin with their friends. People from all of the villages speak Pidgin at the regional market at Abar... Within the schools, the language of choice during recess differs among the villages visited. In Missong, Mekaf, Mbu’, Abar, and Mundabli villages, children speak the MT while on break. Children speak English in the classroom in all the villages with the exception of Mundabli where Pidgin is used in the classroom. English is the language of instruction
in all schools in Lower Fungom."
Nigerian Pidgin
"Mundabli speakers say that Mufu people speak exactly the same as they do while Bu people speak with slight differences. They have MT-MT interaction with both groups. A child of six understands Bu and Mufu... Mundabli people say they understand Missong and Mashi, but they choose to interact in Pidgin... Mundabli express interest in learning to read and write Kom, as doing so would help them in their trade with the Kom people... More than half of the children in every village attend primary school with the exception of Mundabli where very few attend school at all... All villages have a committee for development. Most of the activities of the committee are limited to road building and maintenance as this is such a great need. The committees of Mekaf, Bu, and Mundabli have water development projects and school building projects in addition to road maintenance. The people in general appear self-motivated and willing to work hard for development. Some, of their own accord, even expressed an interest in starting a language committee, although they also said their lack of available funds is a concern."
"Zhoa and Furu-Awa Subdivisions of the Menchum Division of the North West Province. The area is known administratively as Lower Fungom."