Ticaroid languages

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The ticaroid languages ( Tikaroid for short ) form a small subunit of the northern bantoid languages , a branch of the Benue-Congo languages , which in turn belong to the Niger-Congo .

The three Tikaroid languages ​​are spoken by around 35,000 people in Cameroon in the Central Province. The main language is Tikar with 25,000 speakers.

Position of the ticaroid within the Niger-Congo

  • Niger-Congo > Volta-Congo> Benue-Congo> East-Benue-Congo> Bantoid-Cross> Bantoid> North-Bantoid> Tikaroid

The ticaroid languages

  • Ticaroid
    • Tikar (25k)
      • Dialects: Twumwu (Bankim), Tige (Ngambe), Nditam, Kong, Mankim, Gambai
    • Bandobo (5k)
    • Ndemli (Ndemba, Bandem, Bayong) (6k)

Some researchers combine all three languages ​​into a single dialect continuum (i.e. one language). Ndemli's identity has not been established, it may be identical to Bandobo .

See also

literature

  • Joseph Greenberg: The Languages ​​of Africa. Mouton, The Hague and Indiana University Center, Bloomington 1963.
  • Bernd Heine and others (ed.): The languages ​​of Africa. Buske, Hamburg 1981.
  • Bernd Heine and Derek Nurse (eds.): African Languages. An Introduction. Cambridge University Press 2000.
    In it: Kay Williamson and Roger Blench: Niger-Congo.
  • John Bendor-Samuel (Ed.): The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family. University Press of America, Lanham, New York, London 1989.
    Therein: Robert Hedinger: Northern Bantoid.
  • Patrick Bennett and Jan Sterk: South Central Niger-Congo: A Reclassification. Studies in African Linguistics. 1977.

Web links