• Mambila is a dialect chain stretching across Nigeria and Cameroon. It is one of the Mambiloid languages, a branch of Benue–Congo. Notable dialects are...
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    Cameroon is home to at least 250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages...
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  • Nyorrong-Lii-Ngum area of Cameroon and are traceable to the Bang District of Mambilla Plateau. Today, the preferred ethnonym is spelt Mambila in Cameroon and Mambilla...
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    1960s. Mambila people Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve Bantu expansion Mambilla Plateau. Wikimapia.org. Retrieved on 2011-04-09. Chapter IX. The Mambila, David...
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    languages are languages spoken by the Mambila and related peoples mostly in eastern Nigeria and in Cameroon. In Nigeria the largest group is Mambila (there...
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    including the Gotes and Mambilas, contain mixtures of several soil types. The Adamawa is sometimes dubbed the "water tower" of Cameroon, since a large number...
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  • to a study in 2007, only four people spoke this language. All of them were elderly. The Mambila language, also known as Mvop, has instead supplanted Njerep...
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  • Methods of divination (category Articles containing Cameroon Mambila-language text)
    (Greek murmēx, ant + manteía, prophecy) nggàm: by spider or crab behavior (Mambila nggàm, divination) ophidiomancy/ophiomancy: by snakes behavior (Greek ophis...
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  • Mambiloid language of two villages, one in Nigeria and one in Cameroon, that is spoken by a caste of blacksmiths that live among the Mambila. Although...
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  • Cameroon. Despite the confusion, these two languages are unrelated. The most closely related language is Ndunda, which is also located on the Mambila...
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