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The Kwasio language, also known as Ngumba / Mvumbo, Bujeba, and Gyele / Kola, is a language of Cameroon, spoken in the south
along the coast and at the border with Equatorial Guinea by some 70 000 members of the Ngumba, Kwasio, Gyele and Mabi peoples.
The Kwasio, Ngumba, and Mabi are village farmers; the Gyele (also known as the Kola or Koya) are nomadic Pygmy hunter-gatherers
living in the rain forest. Dialects are Kwasio (AKA Kwassio, Bisio), Mvumbo (AKA Ngumba, Ngoumba, Mgoumba, Mekuk), and Mabi
(Mabea). The Gyele speak to subdialects of Mvumbo, Gyele in the north and Kola AKA Koya in the south, variously spelled Giele,
Gieli, Gyeli, Bagiele, Bagyele, Bajele, Bajeli, Bogyel, Bogyeli, Bondjiel and Likoya, Bako, Bakola, Bakuele, also Bekoe. The
local derogatory term for pygmies, Babinga, is also used. Kwasio is a tonal language. As a Bantu language, it has noun class
system. The Kwasio noun class system is somewhat reduced, having retained only 6 genders (a gender being a pairing of a singular
and a plural noun class). |
Names (more)[en] Gyele |
Language type : Living
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