Oku (language)

Oku (Əblam Əbkwo)
Spoken in	Cameroon
speaker	40,000 (1991)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Volta – Congo Bantoid languages South bantoid languages Grassland languages ring center; ; ; ; ; ; Oku (language) ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -2	nic
ISO 639-3	oku

The Oku (also called Ebkuo, Ekpwo, Ukfwo, Bvukoo and Kuɔ ) is a bantoid language from the group of grassland languages spoken by the Oku people in Cameroon .

Oku is a tonal language and has a nominal class system . In 1991, a total of 40,000 people still spoke the Oku.

literature

Emmanuel Nforbi, Oku verb morphology: tense, aspect and mood , 1993
Agnes Mbibeh Yensi, The noun class system of Oku , 1996
Cynthia Blood et Leslie Davis, Oku - English Provisional Lexicon , 1999
Cynthia Blood, The Oku Noun Class System , 1999
Leslie Davis, A Segmental Phonology of the Oku Language , 1992
Leslie Davis, Tone in the Oku Noun and Verb , 1997
M. Paul Lewis (éd.), Ethnologue: Languages of the World , 16th édition, Dallas, Texas, SIL International , 2009.

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Oku: bibliography , Maquette pour le projet "Lexique d'Afrique", G. Segerer, LLACAN.
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oku , The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.