Ngwe

Ngwe
Spoken in	Cameroon
speaker	73,200
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo South Volta Congo East Benue Congo Bantoid cross-languages Bantoid languages Grasslands Bamileke Ngwe
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nwe

The Ngwe is a bantoid language from the Niger-Congo language family that is spoken in Cameroon .

In 2001 the Ngwe had 73,200 speakers, a decrease from previous censuses. It is part of the Bamileke language continuum , and its closest related languages ​​are Yemba and Ngiemboon . Its vowel system has eight vowels that are very similar to the eight primary cardinal vowels [ ie ɛ a ɑ ɔ ou ].

literature

• Ethnological report for Ngwe: Ngwe
• Ayotte, Michael & Ayotte, Charlene. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Language Survey of Ngwe." SIL International

Web links

• Map about the Ngwe language from the LL map project
• Information about the Ngwe language from the multi-tree project

Individual evidence

1. ^ SIL, 2001
2. ^ Ladefoged, Peter : Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1971, p. 67.