Duala language

Duala
Native to	Cameroon
Ethnicity	Duala, Mungo
Native speakers	(90,000 cited 1982)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone A) Sawabantu (A.20) Duala
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dua

Duala (also spelled Douala, Diwala, Dwela, Dualla, and Dwala) is the language spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon. The language belonges to the Bantu language family, and a subgroup of it called the Sawabantu languages. The song "Soul Makossa", as well as pop songs that repeated its lyrics, internationally popularized the Duala word for "(I) dance", "makossa".[1]

Dictionaries

1. E. Dinkelacker, Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache, Hamburg, 1914.
2. Paul Helmlinger, Dictionnaire duala-français, suivi d'un lexique français-duala. Editions Klincksieck, Paris, 1972.
3. Johannes Ittmann, edited by E. Kähler-Meyer, Wörterbuch der Duala-Sprache, Dictionnaire de la langue duala, Dictionary of the Duala Language, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1976. The preface evaluates 1 as terse, but good, while 2 has missing and erroneous tone marks.

External links

• Map of Duala language from the LL-Map project
• Information on Duala language from the MultiTree project
• Ya Jokwa Duala
• DUALA SUN : language and culture
• la langue Duala
• Ethnologue entry