Ticaroid languages
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
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Ticaroid
- Tikar (25k)
- Dialects: Twumwu (Bankim), Tige (Ngambe), Nditam, Kong, Mankim, Gambai
- Bandobo (5k)
- Ndemli (Ndemba, Bandem, Bayong) (6k)
- Tikar (25k)
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
- Niger Congo Languages
- Volta Congo languages
- Benue Congo languages
- East Benue Congo languages
- Bantoid languages
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.