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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boe |
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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: “World Oral Literature Project” .
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."
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: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
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Isbn | Series | Month | Edition | Num | Year | Title | Booktitle | Pages | Note | Editor | Howpublished | Publisher | Journal | Volume | Address | Institution | Chapter | Translator | School | Url | Author | Free Text Citation | Copied From | Older Adults | Ethnic Population | Young Adults | Private Comment | Speaker Number Text | Date Of Info | Speaker Number | Public Comment | Semi Speakers | Elders | Second Language Speakers | Domains Other Langs | Other Languages Used | Private Comment | Government Support | Speaker Attitude | Public Comment | Institutional Support | Number Speaker Other Languages | Endangerment Level | Transmission | Private Comment | Public Comment | Domains Of Use | Speaker Number Trends | Private Comment | Public Comment | Places | Description | Coordinates |
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2012 | What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields | Manuscript | University at Buffalo | http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/DiCarloGood-LFIdeology.pdf | Jeff Good and Pierpaolo DiCarlo | Jeff Good and Pierpaolo DiCarlo. 2012. "What Are We Trying To Preserve? Diversity, Change, and Ideology At the Edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields." Online: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/DiCarloGood-LFIdeology.pdf. | 430-600 | 100-999 | 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. | No estimate available | Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) | Cameroon | Lower Fungom region, Cameroon; villages of Mundabli and Mufu. | 6.606933, 10.273300;6.612433, 10.257167; | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Oral Literature Project | http://www.oralliterature.org | "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org. | 1000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
XVII | 2011 | The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview | Africana Linguistica | http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/goodetal-LowerFungom-Grammar.pdf | Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Patrick and Nguanguep, Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Dicarlo, Pierpaolo | Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Patrick and Nguanguep, Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Dicarlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica XVII. 101-164. | 430-600 | 100-999 | 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." | Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available) | Lower Fungom region, Northwest Cameroon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2001 | A rapid appraisal survey of western Beboid languages (Menchum Division, Northwest Province) | 40 | SIL International | http://www-01.sil.org/silesr/2002/014/SILESR2002-014.pdf | Hamm, Cameron, and Diller, Jason and Jordan-Diller, Kari and a Tiati, Ferdinand Assako | Hamm, Cameron, and Diller, Jason and Jordan-Diller, Kari and a Tiati, Ferdinand Assako. 2001. A rapid appraisal survey of western Beboid languages (Menchum Division, Northwest Province) ALCAM [876, 877, 878, 879]. SIL International. 40pp. | Nigerian Pidgin | "Attitudes toward the MT are very positive especially among the adults. Looking at the domains of language use, only the youth of Mundabli, Mbu’, and Mashi speak Pidgin in addition to the MT with friends of the same age group. It may be true that the youth are increasingly accepting Pidgin as a preferred language of communication within Lower Fungom, and other villages could follow this trend... To evaluate the language maintenance or shift of the MT in each village, we examined the peoples’ attitudes toward the MT and their patterns of language use... People in every village are eager to learn to read and write in their MT. When asked the question, 'If your child speaks Pidgin to you, how does it make you feel?' parents respond that they feel badly." | "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." | Committee for Development | "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." | Lower Fungom | "Zhoa and Furu-Awa Subdivisions of the Menchum Division of the North West Province. The area is known administratively as Lower Fungom." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 2009 | Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009) | M. Paul Lewis | SIL International | Dallas, TX | http://www.ethnologue.com/ | Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.) | ll_pub | 1,000 (2001 SIL) | Cameroon; |