Cambap language

Cambap
Cambap
Twendi
Native to	Cameroon
Ethnicity	1,000 (1991)
Native speakers	(30 cited 2000)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Mambiloid Mambila–Konja Konja Cambap; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	twn
Glottolog	twen1242
ELP	Twendi

Cambap, or Twendi as it is also known, is a nearly extinct Mambiloid language of Cameroon. Speakers have largely shifted to the closely related language Kwanja, and Cambap has not been passed down to children for decades. The language is spoken in the villages of Cambap and Sanga on the Tikar Plain by no more than 30 people, the youngest of whom were born in the 1940s.

Classification

Cambap is a Mambiloid language belonging to the Mambila group. Speakers consider Cambap to be a dialect of Kwanja, but lexical evidence from a variety of Mambiloid languages, especially Kabri, indicates its affinity to the Mambila group.

References

1 2 Cambap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Connell, Bruce (2002-06-01). "Aspects of the phonetics of Cambap". Studies in African Linguistics: 179–210. doi:10.32473/sal.v31i1.107350. ISSN 2154-428X.
↑ Blench, R. M. (1993). An outline classification of the Mambiloid languages. Journal of West African Languages, 23(1), 105-118.

External links

Twendi at EndangeredLanguages.com
Moribund languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland

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[e18-1] 1 2 Cambap at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Connell, Bruce (2002-06-01). "Aspects of the phonetics of Cambap". Studies in African Linguistics: 179–210. doi:10.32473/sal.v31i1.107350. ISSN 2154-428X.

[Blench1993-3] Blench, R. M. (1993). An outline classification of the Mambiloid languages. Journal of West African Languages, 23(1), 105-118.