Mankon language

Mankon
	Ngemba
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	19,000 (2002)[1]; (together with Mundum)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Ngemba Mankon; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nge (Mankon–Mundum)
Glottolog	ngem1255 Ngemba (Mankon–Mundum)[2]

Mankon is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. It is closely related to Mundum and Mendankwe-Nkwen. Along with Mundum, it is called Ngemba. There are several distinct dialects: Mankunge (Ngemba), Nsongwa (Songwa, Bangwa), Shomba (Chomba, Bamechom), Mbutu (Bambutu), Njong (Banjong), Bagangu (Akum) and Alatening.

Traditional clothing called Togho

Culture

Festivities among the ngemba

gollark: Oh, right, I'll do that.

gollark: What am I supposed to do, just run it on the GTech™ computers with their infinite memory?

gollark: This is just far too much, and it seems like it would scale poorly given my new apiary-related plans?

gollark: But according to my apiomemetic status system, it consumes 208MB of RAM?

gollark: I have to admit that not bothering to make config file reading code *is* very convenient.

References

Mankon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngemba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Description of Mankon marriage procedure archived with Kaipuleohone

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[e18-1] Mankon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngemba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.