Lamnso
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Lamnso is the language of the Nso people of Cameroon
. A few may remain in Nigeria.
It is a Grassfields
language with ten major noun class
es.http://faculty.washington.edu/lauramcg/papers/Lamnso.pdf
The ISO 639-3 code is lns.http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=lns This language is spoken by about over 100,000 people.
Cameroon
Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...
. A few may remain in Nigeria.
It is a Grassfields
Grassfields languages
The Grassfields or Grassfields Bantu languages, spoken in the Western grassfields of Cameroon, are a branch of Benue–Congo and a sister group to the Bantu languages...
language with ten major noun class
Noun class
In linguistics, the term noun class refers to a system of categorizing nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of characteristic features of its referent, such as sex, animacy, shape, but counting a given noun among nouns of such or another class is often clearly conventional...
es.http://faculty.washington.edu/lauramcg/papers/Lamnso.pdf
The ISO 639-3 code is lns.http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=lns This language is spoken by about over 100,000 people.
Phrases
- Beri wo. Thank you. (Deutsch: Danke)
- A saka? What news? (Greeting). (Deutsch: Wie Gehts?)
- Saka yo dzə. No news (Reply) OR M bo sa. I am fine. (Deutsch: Gut)
- Nyuy servi wo. God bless you (Greeting). (Deutsch: Gott segne dich)
- Fo mo. Give me. (Deutsch: Gib mir)
- A du fe? Where are you going? (Deutsch: Wo gehen Sie hin?)
- Yir yee dzə la? What is your name? (Deutsch: Wie heißen Sie?)
- Yir yem dzə Luckong. My name is Luckong. (Deutsch: Meine Name ist Luckong)
- A dzə wan la? Whose child are you? (Deutsch: Zu welchen Eltern gehören Sie?)
- M dzə wan Emma. I am Emma's child. (Deutsch: Ich bin das Kind von Emma)
- Fon Nso dze la? Who is the Traditional ruler of Nso? (Deutsch: Wie heißt der Nso Oberhaupt?)
Animal names
- baar; leopard
- jwi: dog
- kan: monkey
- kitam: elephant
- mbvèreh: lion
- shishuuiy: duica
- bvey: goat