Ndoola language

Ndoola
Ndoola
Ndoro
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State
Ethnicity	Ndola people
Native speakers	(63,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Mambiloid? Ndoro–Fam Ndoola; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ndr
Glottolog	ndoo1241
ELP	Ndoola

Ndoola (Ndoro) or Njoyamɛ in Cameroon is a Bantoid language of Nigeria, with several thousand speakers in Cameroon. It is either among or related to the Mambiloid languages.

Phonology

Consonants
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	oral	labialised	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d	tʃ dʒ	k g	kʷ gʷ	ʔ
Prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdʒ	ᵑg	ᵑgʷ
Fricative	f v	s z	ʃ			h
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ	ŋʷ
Approximant	w	l, r	ʎ, j

Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u uː
Mid-high	e eː	ə	o oː
Mid-low	ɛ ɛː		ɔ
Low		a aː

Ndoro also has five tones; high, mid, low, falling, and rising.

Morphology

Ndoola nouns can have both prefixes and suffixes attached to them, although not for all nouns. Most nouns do not mark the plural, and the ones that do most commonly indicate plurality using a suffix.

Pronouns


	sing.	plur.
1st	nímə̀	nájā
2nd	níbâ	nɨnjīnā
3rd	wūnī	nɛ́bū

References

↑ Ndoola at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
1 2 3 4 5 Blench, Roger; Connell, Bruce (2014). A preliminary assessment of Ndoola (Ndoro) (PDF). Archived from the original on 2025-09-11.

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

[BlenchAtlas4-2] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

[blench14-3] 1 2 3 4 5 Blench, Roger; Connell, Bruce (2014). A preliminary assessment of Ndoola (Ndoro) (PDF). Archived from the original on 2025-09-11.