Duala language
Duala (also spelt Douala, Diwala, Dwela, Dualla and Dwala) is a dialect cluster spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. Douala belongs to the Bantu language family, in a subgroup called Sawabantu. Maho (2009) treats Douala as a cluster of five languages: Douala proper, Bodiman, Oli (Ewodi, Wuri), Pongo and Mongo. He also notes a Douala-based pidgin named Jo.
Douala | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Douala, Mungo |
Native speakers | (87,700 cited 1982)[1] Most speakers live in Douala, the biggest city of Cameroon, which has since grown more than four times as big. |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | dua |
ISO 639-3 | dua |
Glottolog | dual1243 Duala[2]olib1234 Oli-Bidiman[3] |
A.24–26 [4] |
Jo | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Region | around Douala |
Native speakers | None |
Douala-based pidgin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
A.20A [4] |
Popular culture
The song "Soul Makossa", as well as pop songs that repeated its lyrics, internationally popularised the Duala word for "(I) dance", "makossa".[5] The song Alane by artist Wes Madiko is sung in Duala and reached #1 position in at least 10 European countries.
Dictionaries
- E. Dinkelacker, Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache, Hamburg, 1914.
- Paul Helmlinger, Dictionnaire duala-français, suivi d'un lexique français-duala. Editions Klincksieck, Paris, 1972.
- Johannes Ittmann, edited by E. Kähler-Meyer, Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache, Dictionnaire de la langue duala, Dictionary of the Duala Language, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1976. The preface evaluates ref. 1 above as terse, but good, while ref. 2 has missing and erroneous tone marks.
gollark: Metric System 5Ever!
gollark: DUN DUN DUN!
gollark: Also, my connection seems to be terrible, so stuff is barely loading.
gollark: *is entirely locked*
gollark: Better than the constant purples and whites.
References
- Douala at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Duala". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Oli-Bidiman". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
- "TRANS Nr. 13: George Echu (Yaounde): Multilingualism as a Resource: the Lexical Appropriation of Cameroon Indigenous Languages by English and French". Inst.at. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
External links
- Duala alphabet, Omniglot
- DUALA SUN : language and culture
- Ya Jokwa Duala (short dictionary of the French – Duala)
- la langue Duala
- Wiktionnaire, français – duala lemmas
- Map of Duala language from the LL-Map project
- Christian films in Douala (video)
- Portail Douala-douala
- Résurrection des langues minoritaires
- Alphabet camerounais
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