Suh Ade Fobujong

Àbì'ne Àkàmte Negham Ne Ñgeumba: Introduction to Central Standard Ñgeumba Suh Ade Fobujong

There are three primary objectives in this book. The first is to develop a linguistic system for writing Central Standard Ñgeumba (CSÑ). The second objective is to assist those who speak CSÑ to be able to write it. The third is to assist none native speakers of CSÑ to learn to speak and write Central Standard Ñgeumba. The area comprising the villages of Mankon, Tsohn-Mba' Mbatu and Nso'ñgwa constitute a geo-political and linguistic region referred to as Central Ñgeumba. Although Ndzöng is not in the geo-political region, it is within the Central Ñgeumba linguistic region and the dialect is essentially Mankon. Since the Ñgeumba dialects spoken in the geo-political and linguistic region are very similar, the Ñgeumba language in this book is referred to as Central Standard Ñgeumba (CSÑ) - a derivative of the dialects in Central Ñgeumba linguistic region of Bamenda. This derivative is spoken in the urbanized areas of Bamenda; notably in Nitob, Ntarinkon, Mbatu and Nsö'ñgwa where a confluence of the Central Ñgeumba dialects has resulted in the evolution of CSÑ. In order to further advance CSÑ, a streaming approach is used in standardizing the written language. Streaming involves navigating through the Central Ñgeumba dialects and looking for new words, commonality in pronunciation/usage of existing words as well as looking for words that have similar meaning but do not have a complex speech sound. The reader will find value added information in this book which here-to-fore has not been present in Ñgeumba lexicon such as, numeral counts up to one centillion, metric conversions to CSÑ, Cardinal points in CSÑ, and a new format for describing time in CSÑ. SAF