Mbule language

{{Short description|Endamgered Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Mbule

|region=southwestern Cameroon

|ethnicity=Yambassa

|speakers=110

|date=2009

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Southern Bantoid

|fam5=Mbam

|fam6=Yambasa

|iso3=mlb

|glotto=mbul1262

|glottorefname=Mbule

|guthrie=A.623

}}

Mbule, also called Dumbule or Mbola, is an endangered Southern Bantoid language spoken by a few people in central Cameroon.

The language is spoken in Mbola village in the South Bokito commune, Mbam-et-Inoubou department of the Centre Region, Cameroon.

As reported in 2009, there were just 110 speakers of the language, none of whom were monolingual.

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite web

|url=http://www.silcam.org/download.php?sstid=030401&folder=documents&file=dumbule_boone1992_1668_p.pdf

|title=A Sociolinguistic Survey in Mbola: Mbule Survey Report

|author=BOONE, Douglas W.

|year=1992

|publisher=SIL Cameroon

|access-date=2011-02-11}}

{{Languages of Cameroon}}

{{Mbam languages}}

{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones A–B)}}

Category:Mbam languages

Category:Languages of Cameroon

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