Kasabe language

{{Short description|Extinct language of Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Kasabe

| region = Mambila, Nyalang

| familycolor = Niger-Congo

| fam2 = Atlantic–Congo

| fam3 = Benue–Congo

| fam4 = Mambiloid

| fam5 = Mambila–Konja ?

| extinct = November 5, 1995, with the death of Bogon

| iso3 = none

| glotto = none

| states = Cameroon

}}

The Kasabe language is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Mambila in the Nyalang area. The last speaker, a man named Bogon, died on 5 November 1995.{{cite web|last=Crystal |first=David |url=http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/millenniumbriefingthedeathoflanguage/ |title=Millennium briefing: the death of language |publisher=Prospectmagazine.co.uk |date=1999-11-20 |access-date=2013-09-02}}

Bibliography

  • Connell, B. (1995). Dying Languages and the Complexity of the Mambiloid Group. Paper presented at the 25th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden.

References