Kolbila language

Kolbila is an Adamawa language of Cameroon and Nigeria.

Kolbila
Native toCameroon
RegionAdamawa Region
Native speakers
2,500 (1997)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3klc
Glottologkolb1240[2]

Distribution

Kolbila is closely related to Samba Leko. It is spoken by fewer than 4,000 speakers in several settlements along the Ngaoundéré-Garoua road in Bantanjé (Bantadje) canton of northwest Cameroon (Sabine Littig 2017). There were three major waves of settlement to these locations:[3]

  • Demsa (in 1954)
  • Mayo Boki (in 1972)
  • Mbé (in 1976)
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References

  1. Kolbila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kolbila". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Littig, Sabine (2017). Kolbila: Geography and history.
  • Kolbila - Adamawa Languages Project
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