Kenyang language

Kenyang (Nyang, Banyang, Manyang) is the principal Southern Bantoid language of the Mamfe family. It is spoken in the Manyu and Meme departments of the Southwest Region of Cameroon. Kenyang speakers in Cameroon are known as Bayangi (Bayangui) people and are called Bayangi (Bayangui).

Kenyang
Nyang
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
(65,000 cited 1992)[1]
Dialects
  • Kitwii
  • Lower Kenyang
  • Upper Kenyang
Language codes
ISO 639-3ken
Glottologkeny1279[2]

There are three main dialects of Kenyang: Lower Kenyang, spoken in Eyumojock and Mamfe Central subdivisions, Upper Kenyang, spoken in Upper Banyang subdivision and Kitwii, spoken in Meme department. The Upper Kenyang and Lower Kenyang dialects are more closely related to each other than to Kitwii.[3] Variant names of Kitwii include, Kicwe, Twii, Bakoni, Northern Balong, Upper Balong and Manyeman.

References
  1. Kenyang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kenyang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Mbuagbaw, Tanyi Eyong (September 2008). "The Standardisation and Modernisation of Kenyang". SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork 2008-001. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.511.5303. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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