In their own language, the Vengo people call their village vengo (vəŋóo) and their language ghang vengo (gháŋ vəŋóo), which means "language of the Vengo"; it is thus officially listed under the name Vengo or Vengoo. Other names for the language are Vengi, Pengo, Ngo, Nguu, Ngwa, Nge.
Vengo is spoken by about 14,000 people. Because the Babungo people all live closely together and concentrate only in and around Vengo village, there are only small dialectical variations in their speech.
The Vengo language uses different tone pitches, which form a distinctive feature for the meaning of the words. In the Vengo tone system, there are eight distinctive pitch types or pitch sequences on vowels: high, mid, low, high-mid, high-low, low-falling, low-high, low-high-mid.
The use of the language (and traditional Babungo customs) is decreasing among the Babungo people due to not insignificant socio-cultural problems in that region. In most cases, those people acquire English as mother tongue, if they stay predominantly in the anglophone Northwest of Cameroon, otherwise French if they orient themselves towards the francophone parts of Cameroon. Most of the people in Western Cameroon speak Cameroonian Pidgin English anyway.
vengo, language, vengo, vəŋo, babungo, grassfields, language, language, vengo, people, from, village, babungo, cameroonian, grassfields, spelling, bamungo, also, often, found, vengobabungogháŋ, vəŋóonative, tocameroonregionnorth, west, provincenative, speakers. Vengo Veŋo or Babungo is a Grassfields language and the language of the Vengo people from the village of Babungo in the Cameroonian Grassfields The spelling Bamungo is also often found VengoBabungoghaŋ veŋooNative toCameroonRegionNorth West ProvinceNative speakers27 000 2008 1 Language familyNiger Congo Atlantic CongoBenue CongoSouthern BantoidGrassfieldsRingSouthVengoLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code bav class extiw title iso639 3 bav bav a Glottologveng1238In their own language the Vengo people call their village vengo veŋoo and their language ghang vengo ghaŋ veŋoo which means language of the Vengo it is thus officially listed under the name Vengo or Vengoo Other names for the language are Vengi Pengo Ngo Nguu Ngwa Nge Vengo is spoken by about 14 000 people Because the Babungo people all live closely together and concentrate only in and around Vengo village there are only small dialectical variations in their speech The Vengo language uses different tone pitches which form a distinctive feature for the meaning of the words In the Vengo tone system there are eight distinctive pitch types or pitch sequences on vowels high mid low high mid high low low falling low high low high mid The use of the language and traditional Babungo customs is decreasing among the Babungo people due to not insignificant socio cultural problems in that region In most cases those people acquire English as mother tongue if they stay predominantly in the anglophone Northwest of Cameroon otherwise French if they orient themselves towards the francophone parts of Cameroon Most of the people in Western Cameroon speak Cameroonian Pidgin English anyway Bibliography EditWilli Schaub Babungo Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars Croom Helm Ltd Beckenham Kent UK 1985 ISBN 0 7099 3352 5 References Edit Vengo at Ethnologue 18th ed 2015 subscription required This article about Grassfields Bantu languages is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Vengo language amp oldid 1125171183, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
