Bikélé (people)

The Bikélé are an ethnic group living mainly in the south-west of Cameroon, in the department of Haut-Nyong, sub-division of Messamena. They are closely related to the Badjoué.

Language

The Bikélé speak the kol language (also known as Bikélé), a southern Bantoid language.[1]

gollark: This isn't really much of an explanation.
gollark: Those are separate.
gollark: And I can't see why people go around doing gambling and failing to understand basic statistics and probability, and yet.
gollark: No, they buy things because they (think they (should)) value them for some reason, which is not the same thing.
gollark: Fungible basically means that you can have multiple interchangeable units of a thing. Currencies are fungible because all "£5 notes" are worth £5 and it doesn't matter much which unit you have.

References
  1. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.

Bibliography
  • Dictionnaire des villages du Haut-Nyong, Centre ORSTOM de Yaoundé, June 1968, 84 p. (identification of Bikélé villages)
  • H. Koch, "Le petit bétail chez les Badjoué et Bikélé de Messamena", in Bulletin de la Société d'études camerounaises, 1946, 276, Numbers: 13-14, p. 27-108
  • Henri Koch, Magie et chasse au Cameroun (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1968) [a study of the culture of Badjoué and Bikélé peoples].

See also
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