Twendi language

Twendi
Twendi
Cambap
Native to	Cameroon
Ethnicity	one thousand (1991)
Native speakers	30 (2000)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Mambiloid Mambila–Konja Konja Twendi; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	twn
Glottolog	twen1242
ELP	Twendi

Twendi, or Cambap as it is also known, is a nearly extinct Mambiloid language of Cameroon. Speakers have largely shifted to the closely related language Kwanja, and Twendi has not been passed down to children for decades. The language is spoken in the villages of Cambap and Sanga on the Tikar Plain by no more than 30 people, the youngest of whom were born in the 1940s.^[2]

Classification

Twendi is a Mambiloid language belonging to the Mambila group. Speakers consider Twendi to be a dialect of Kwanja, but lexical evidence from a variety of Mambiloid languages, especially Kabri, indicates its affinity to the Mambila group.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b Twendi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Connell, B. (2002). Aspects of the phonetics of Cambap. Studies in African Linguistics, 31 (1 & 2)
^ Blench, R. M. (1993). An outline classification of the Mambiloid languages. Journal of West African Languages, 23(1), 105-118.

External links

Twendi at EndangeredLanguages.com
Moribund languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon borderland

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[e18-1] Twendi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Connell, B. (2002). Aspects of the phonetics of Cambap. Studies in African Linguistics, 31 (1 & 2)

[Blench1993-3] Blench, R. M. (1993). An outline classification of the Mambiloid languages. Journal of West African Languages, 23(1), 105-118.

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v t e Northern Bantoid languages
Dakoid	Dong (Donga) Gaa (Tiba) Taram Daka
Mambiloid	Nizaa (Suga) Kwanja Twendi Mbongno Mvanip (Mvano) Somyev Ndunda Mambila Tep Vute Wawa ? Ndoola (Ndoro) ? Fam
Other	Tikar