Fali languages (Cameroon)
| Fali | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Region | North |
| Ethnicity | Fali |
Native speakers | (35,000 cited 1982)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:fal – South Falifll – North Fali |
| Glottolog | adam1254 |
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Fali comprises two languages spoken in northern Cameroon. Included in Greenberg's Adamawa languages (as group G11), it was excluded from that family by Boyd (1989). Roger Blench suspects it may represent one of the earlier lineages to have branched off the Atlantic–Congo stock.
Varieties
[edit | edit source]According to Ethnologue 16, the two branches of Fali are "different," but it is not clear how distinct they are. Blench apparently treats them as half a dozen languages in two branches. South Fali has 20,000 speakers, with several dialects. North Fali, with 16,000 speakers, also has several dialects; North Fali speakers were "rapidly" shifting to Adamawa Fulfulde by 1982.
- North Fali
- Dourbeye (Fali-Dourbeye)
- Bossum (Fali-Bossum)
- Bvəri (Fali du Peske-Bori)
- South Fali
- Kaang (Fali Kangou)
- Bele (Fali-Bele)
- Fali-Tinguélin
The Nimbari language used to be spoken in the southern Fali area, but Nimbari people now speak Fali Kangou.[2]
See also
[edit | edit source]- List of Proto-Fali reconstructions (Wiktionary)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ South Fali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
North Fali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer. 2012. Nimbari as a language name. Adamawa Languages Project.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)
- Sweetman, Gary. 1981. A comparative study of Fali dialects. Yaoundé: SIL.
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