Mbum languages

The Mbum or Kebi-Benue languages (also known as Lakka in narrower scope[2]) are a group of the Mbum–Day branch of the Adamawa languages, spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and eastern Nigeria. Their best-known member is Mbum; other languages in the group include Tupuri and Kare.

Mbum
Kebi-Benue
Geographic
distribution		southern Chad, northwestern CAR, northern Cameroon, eastern Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo
Subdivisions
  • Central
  • Northern
  • Mbum
Glottologmbum1257[1]

They were labeled "G6" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.

Languages

In addition, Pondo, Gonge, Tale, Laka, Pam and To are unclassified within Mbum. To is a secret male initiation language of the Gbaya. Dek is purported in some sources but apparently unattested.

La'bi, an esoteric ritual language of male initiation among the Gbaya Kara, the Mbum, and some Sara Laka, is related to Mbum. It has substantial loans from one or more Sara languages.[3] Other initiation languages in the Mbum family are To (Gbaya, but with partial Mbum origins), Dzel, and Ngarage.[4]

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See also

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mbumic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Boyd, Raymond. 1974. Étude Comparative dans le groupe Adamawa. (Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France, 46.) Paris: Centre National de la Récherche Sciéntifique
  3. Yves Moñino, 1977. "Conceptions du monde et langue d'initiation la'bi de Gbaya-Kara", Langages et cultures africaines, Paris, Maspero.
  4. Elders, Stefan. 2006. Issues in comparative Kebi-Benue (Adamawa). Africana Linguistica XII. 37-88.
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