Nsoʼ language

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The Nsoʼ language is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken primarily by the Nsoʼ people in Cameroon’s Northwest Region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bantoid language
Grassfields Bantu language
Northern Grassfields language
language
coexistsWith Cameroonian Pidgin English NERFINISHED
English in education
French in administration
country Cameroon NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Lamnsoʼ NERFINISHED
Nsaw NERFINISHED
Nso
hasCountryOfficialLanguage English
French
hasDomain education (local level)
local administration
oral literature
traditional religion
hasEthnicPopulation Nsoʼ people NERFINISHED
hasGlottocode nsox1238
hasISO6393Code lns
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
tone language
hasMorphologicalFeature prefixal noun classes
verbal extensions
hasNeighboringLanguage Bamum language NERFINISHED
Kom language NERFINISHED
Lamnedo NERFINISHED
Oku language NERFINISHED
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
noun class system
hasSociolinguisticStatus important marker of Nsoʼ identity
hasStandardizationEffort literacy materials
orthography development
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isPartOf Cameroonian languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Benue–Congo languages NERFINISHED
Niger–Congo languages
Southern Bantoid languages NERFINISHED
region Bui Division NERFINISHED
Grassfields region of Cameroon NERFINISHED
spokenBy Nsoʼ people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Cameroon NERFINISHED
Northwest Region, Cameroon NERFINISHED
subgroupOf Grassfields languages NERFINISHED
usedBy Nsoʼ community NERFINISHED
usedIn Nsoʼ cultural festivals
Nsoʼ traditional palace

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