Nchumbulu language
Nchumbulu is a highly endangered language that is spoken in Ghana by the Brong Ahafo region west of Lake Volta near Kaplang and is spoken in three villages in the area.[1][2]
Classification
| Nchumbulu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ghana |
Native speakers | 1,800 (2003)[3] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nlu |
| Glottolog |
nchu1238[4] |
Nchumbulu is a Guang language of Ghana that is part of the North Guang subdivision of the language family.[5]
Resources
- Batibo, H. (2004). The role of minority languages in education and development in Africa. The language web: Essays in honour of Victor Webb, 26-33.
- Blench, R. (2007). Endangered languages in West Africa. Language diversity endangered
- Goody, Jack R. (1963). Ethnological Notes on the distribution of the Guang Languages. Journal of African Languages 2. 173-189.
- Edu-Buandoh, Dora Francisca. Multilingualism in Ghana: An ethnographic study of college students at the University of Cape Coast. ProQuest, 2006.
References
- ↑ Batibo, Herman Language Decline and Death in Africa: Causes, Consequences, and Challenges (2005)
- ↑ Nchumbulu Ethnologue
- ↑ Nchumbulu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nchumbulu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Ansah, M. A., & Agyeman, N. A. (2015). Ghana language-in-education policy: The survival of two South Guan minority dialects. In: Per Linguam 31(1), 89.
External links
- http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/4622
- http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/5372
- http://www.sil.org/resources/archives/50335
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