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Vengo

A language of Cameroon

ISO 639-3: bav

Population	27,000 (2008).
Region	North West Province, Ngo Ketunjia Division, north of Ndop on Ndop Plain.
Language map	Southwestern Cameroon, Enlarged Area, reference number 139
Alternate names	Babungo, Nge, Ngo, Nguu, Ngwa, Pengo, Vengi, Vengoo
Dialects	Similar to Wushi [bse], Kenswei-Nsei [ndb], Bamunka [bvm].
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Wide Grassfields, Narrow Grassfields, Ring, South
Language development	Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1993.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Their name for themselves is ‘Vengoo’.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

EMMANUEL M., Nchio-Minkee; SCHAUB, Willi, compilers. 1982. Ŋwa’lǝ mǝsenǝ vǝnu: Ghaŋ Vǝŋoo-Ghaŋ Mǝkalǝ; Ghaŋ Mǝkalǝ-Ghaŋ Vǝnoo (Dictionary: Babungo-English/English-Babungo).

LEROY, Jacqueline, author. 1986. Review of: Babungo, by Willi Schaub.

MBANJI, Bawe Ernest, illustrator; GFELLER, Elisabeth, editor. 1990. Multilingual Cameroon: Reader in Cameroonian languages = Cameroun multilingue: Lectures en langues camerounaises .

SCHAUB, Willi, author. 1985. Babungo.

Vernacular Publications

Jɨɨ yijǝǝ maa mǝduʼ taa taa. 1985.

Mǝtiitii mǝ vǝŋoo 2. 1985.

Mǝtiitii mǝ vǝŋoo. 1982.

Ŋwaʼlǝ mǝzwetǝ maa ghaŋ vǝŋoo 1-3. 1980.

Pre-primer. 1976.