Nyong (Daganyonga), also known as Mubako and Bali-Kumbat, is a
Leko language spoken in two well-separated enclaves in
Cameroon
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Nigeria
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. Cameroonian speakers consider themselves to be ethnically
Chamba Chamba may refer to:
People
* Gilberto Chamba (born 1961), Ecuadorian serial killer
* Jessica Chamba (born 1981), European activist
Places Ghana
* Chamba, a town in the Northern Region
India
* Chamba (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Himachal Pradesh ...
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Nyong is linguistically distinct from nearby languages. It is instead more similar to the
Chamba language which is spoken to the north. Nyong and Chamba have 85% lexical similarity.
Distribution
''Ethnologue'' (22nd ed.) lists the following Nyong villages and locations.
*Cameroon
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Mezam
Mezam is a division of the North West Region of Cameroon. The department covers an area of 1745 km and as of 2005 had a total population of 524,127. The capital of the department lies at Bamenda.
Subdivisions
The department is divided admini ...
division,
Santa
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subdivision: Baligham village
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Ngo-Ketunjia
Ngo-Ketunjia is a department of Northwest Province in Cameroon. The department covers an area of and as of 2005 had a total population of 187,348. The capital of the department lies at Ndop. Within the self-declared Federal Republic of Ambazoni ...
division,
Balikumbat
Balikumbat is a town and commune in Cameroon.
It comprises 5 villages :
* Bafanji
*Baligansin
*Baligashu
*Balikumbat (village)
*Bamunkumbit
See also
*Communes of Cameroon
The Arrondissements of Cameroon are the third-level units of administra ...
subdivision: Baligashu, Baligansin, and Balikumbat villages on
Ndop
Ndop is a town and a commune in the northwest of Cameroon.
It comprises four villages:
* Bambalang (village)
* Bamali
* Bamessing
* Bamunka
See also
*Communes of Cameroon
The Arrondissements of Cameroon are the third-level units of admin ...
plain
*Nigeria
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Adamawa State
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Mayo Belwa
Mayo-Belwa, is a Local Government Area in Adamawa State, Nigeria. It had an estimated population of about 204,200 people as of 2016. It shares boundary with Taraba State to the west.
The settlement was founded by the Bata of the Mayo Ine valley ...
LGA
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Zing
Zing or ZING may refer to:
*Zing (model-checker), infrastructure for verification of concurrent software via model checking
*Zing (punctuation) or irony punctuation, invented by English printer Henry Denham in the 1580s
*Zing (quartet), the 2010 S ...
LGA. 6 villages.
Phonology
The vowels of Nyong are /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /ə/ /ɛ/, /ɔ/, and /a/. Length contrast exists in all vowels except /ə/ and /o/, which are always short. There are five tones: high, mid, low, rising, and falling.
References
{{Adamawa languages
Leko languages
Languages of Nigeria
Languages of Cameroon