Oblo
| Oblo | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | (moribund or extinct) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
obl |
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The Oblo is a possibly extinct isolated language of northern Cameroon .
It belongs to the language group of the Adamaua-Ubangi languages and cannot be assigned to any of its subgroups. Most of the speakers have adopted the Cameroonian official language, French, as it enjoys a higher level of political prestige on the part of the government.
Oblo is or was spoken in a small area including Gobtikéré, Ouro Bé and Ouro Badjouma, in Pitoa in the Bénoué department.
Web links
- Map of Oblo language from the LL-Map project
- Information on Oblo language from the MultiTree project
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Note: the map in Ethnologue shows it in Mayo-Rey Department, possibly an error.)