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==References==
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*{{cite conference |last=Blench |first=Roger |year=2011 |url=http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantoid/General/Blench%20Bantu%20IV%20Berlin%20Bantoid%202011.pdf |title=The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu |conference=Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin}}
*Cox, Bruce. 2005. Notes on the Phonology of Kemezung. ms. Yaoundé: SIL
*Brye, Edward and Elizabeth Brye. 2004. "Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-011: 18 p. http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-011
*{{cite web |last1=Brye |first1=Edward |last2=Brye |first2=Elizabeth |year=2004 |title=Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster |url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/95/12/83/95128392022985329760471919891608127743/silesr2004_011.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907140909/http://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/95/12/83/95128392022985329760471919891608127743/silesr2004_011.pdf |archive-date=2014-09-07 |publisher=SIL}}
*{{cite web |last=Cox |first=Bruce |year=2005 |title=Notes on the Phonology of Kemezung |location=Yaoundé |publisher=SIL |url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/91/86/62/91866262271700062658524593721604091182/NotesonthephonologyofKemezung.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106043206/https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/91/86/62/91866262271700062658524593721604091182/NotesonthephonologyofKemezung.pdf |archive-date=2023-11-06}}
* Blench, Roger, 2011. [http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/Bantoid/General/Blench%20Bantu%20IV%20Berlin%20Bantoid%202011.pdf 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu']. ''Bantu IV'', Humboldt University, Berlin.
*{{cite web |last=Smoes |first=Christopher L. |publisher=SIL |url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/17/70/34/17703463828012694922529725818753020034/KemezungSketchGrammar.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208115108/https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/17/70/34/17703463828012694922529725818753020034/KemezungSketchGrammar.pdf |archive-date=2023-12-08 |title=A Sketch Grammar of the Kemezung language}}


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Revision as of 00:50, 23 December 2023

Kemezung
Native toCameroon
RegionNorthwest Province, Donga-Mantung Division, Southwest corner of Ako Subdivision, Northwest of Nkambé, town of Dumbu and village of Kwei.
Native speakers
3,540 (2008)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3dmo
Glottologkeme1240

Kemezung (Dumbo, Dumbu, Dzumbo, Kumaju) is a Southern Bantoid (Eastern Beboid) language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Bebe.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Kemezung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

References

  • Blench, Roger (2011). The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu (PDF). Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
  • Brye, Edward; Brye, Elizabeth (2004). "Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster" (PDF). SIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-07.
  • Cox, Bruce (2005). "Notes on the Phonology of Kemezung" (PDF). Yaoundé: SIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-11-06.
  • Smoes, Christopher L. "A Sketch Grammar of the Kemezung language" (PDF). SIL. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-12-08.