Oblo is a poorly attested, unclassified, and possibly extinct language of northern
Cameroon
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. It is, or was, spoken in a tiny area including Gobtikéré, Ouro Bé, and Ouro Badjouma, in
Pitoa
Pitoa is a town and commune in Cameroon.
See also
*Communes of Cameroon
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,
Bénoué Department.
Eldridge Mohammadou located Olbo around Bé, at the confluence of the
Benue River
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and
Kebi River, in
Bibemi
Bibemi is a town and commune in Cameroon.
Notable people
* Goggo Addi (1911–1999), storyteller who worked to preserve Fulani cultural heritage
See also
*Communes of Cameroon
The Arrondissements of Cameroon are the third-level units of ad ...
commune.
[Ayotte, Michael and Charlene Ayotte. 2002. ]
Sociolinguistic Language Survey of Dama, Mono, Pam, Ndai, and Oblo
'. SIL International. However, ''ALCAM'' (2012), following ''Ethnologue'', reports that Oblo was spoken near
Tcholliré
Tcholliré is a town and commune in Cameroon.
Tcholliré Prison
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in
Mayo-Rey department, Northern Region.
Oblo is known only from eight words collected by Kurt Strümpell in the early 1900s.
Oblo has been classified as one of the
Adamawa languages, but it has not been included in recent classifications.
It might be best left unclassified altogether.
"Towards a new classification of African languages"
''Linguistic Contribution to the History of Sub-Saharan Africa,'' University of Lyons
Further reading
*Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1983. Peuples et Royaumes du Foumbina. In ''African Languages and Ethnography XVII''. Morimichi Tomikawa, ed. Japan: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
*Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1979. ''Les Yillaga de la Bénoué: Ray ou Rey-Bouba''. Paris: CNRS.
*Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1980. ''Garoua: Tradition historique d’une cité peule du Nord-Cameroun''. Paris: CNRS.
*Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1983. ''Peuples et Etats du Foumbina et de l’Adamawa''. (Traduction d’études par K. Strümpell et von Briesen). Yaoundé.
*Strümpell, Kurt, and Bernard Struck. 1910. “Vergleichendes Wörterverzeichnis der Heidensprachen Adamauas”. ''Zeitschrift für Ethnologie'' 42 (314):444–448. (“Vocabulairecomparé des langues des païens de l’Adamaoua”)
*Struempell, Kurt. 1912. “Die Geschichte Adamauas nach mündlichen Ueberlieferungen”. ''Mitt. Geogr. Gesellschaft in Hamburg'' 26:46–107.
References
{{Languages of Cameroon
Adamawa languages
Unclassified languages of Africa
Languages of Cameroon