Duala language
Douala | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Douala, Mungo |
Native speakers | (87,700 cited 1982)[1] Most speakers live in Douala, the biggest city of Cameroon, which has since grown more than four times as big. |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | dua |
ISO 639-3 | dua |
Glottolog | dual1243 Dualaolib1234 Oli-Bidiman |
Guthrie code | A.24–26 [2] |
Jo | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Region | around Douala |
Native speakers | None |
Language family | Douala-based pidgin |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
Guthrie code | A.20A [2] |
Duala (also spelt Douala, Diwala, Dwela, Dualla and Dwala) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Douala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. Maho (2009) treats Douala as a cluster of five languages: Douala proper, Bodiman, Oli (Ewodi, Wuri), Pongo and Mongo. He also notes a Douala-based pidgin named Jo.
Popular culture[]
The song "Soul Makossa", as well as pop songs that repeated its lyrics, internationally popularised the Duala word for "(I) dance", "makossa".[3] The song Alane by artist Wes Madiko is sung in Duala and reached #1 position in at least 10 European countries.
Bibliography[]
- E. Dinkelacker, Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache, Hamburg, 1914. [Duala - German dictionary]
- Paul Helmlinger, Dictionnaire duala-français, suivi d'un lexique français-duala. Editions Klincksieck, Paris, 1972. [Duala - French dictionary]
- Johannes Ittmann, edited by Emmi Kähler-Meyer, Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache, Dictionnaire de la langue duala, Dictionary of the Duala Language, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1976. [Duala - German - French - English dictionary. The preface evaluates ref. 1 above as terse, but good, while ref. 2 has missing and erroneous tone marks.]
- Johannes Ittmann, Grammatik des Duala (Kamerun), Verlag Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1939. [A grammar of Duala.]
References[]
- ^ Douala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- ^ "TRANS Nr. 13: George Echu (Yaounde): Multilingualism as a Resource: the Lexical Appropriation of Cameroon Indigenous Languages by English and French". Inst.at. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
External links[]
- Duala alphabet, Omniglot
- DUALA SUN : language and culture
- Ya Jokwa Duala (short dictionary of the French – Duala)
- la langue Duala
- Wiktionnaire, français – duala lemmas
- Map of Duala language from the LL-Map project
- Christian films in Douala (video)
- Portail Douala-douala
- Résurrection des langues minoritaires
- Alphabet camerounais
Categories:
- Douala
- Sawabantu languages
- Languages of Cameroon
- Cameroon stubs
- Bantu language stubs