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Noone

A language of Cameroon

ISO 639-3: nhu

Population	25,000 (2001 SIL).
Region	North West Province, Bui Division, northwest Kumbo Subdivision.
Language map	Southwestern Cameroon, Enlarged Area, reference number 136
Alternate names	Noni, Nooni
Dialects	Member of the Eastern Beboid subgroup. Lexical similarity: 88% with Ncane [ncr].
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Beboid, Eastern
Language development	Literacy rate in L2: 25%–50%. Dictionary. Bible portions: 2000–2004.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BRYE, Edward; BRYE, Elizabeth, authors. 2002. "Rapid appraisal and intelligibility testing surveys of the Eastern Beboid group of languages (Northwest Province)."  

LUX, Cindy; LUX, David, authors. 1996. Tone in the Noòni noun phrase: orthographic considerations.  

LUX, Cindy; LUX, David, authors. 1999. Notes on discourse features of Noòni narrative texts, Part 1.  

LUX, David, compiler. 1993. A collection of Noni texts.  

LUX, David, compiler. 2003. Noni provisional lexicon.  

RICHARDS, Russell M., author. 1983. Review of: Noni grammatical structure, with special reference to verb morphology, by Larry M. Hyman.

WIESEMANN, Ursula, author. 1982. "Switch reference in Bantu languages."

Vernacular Publications

Kintîm - nú enúlò ɛ́bófɛ fo yɛwɛ́. 1993.

Nwaʼ nʼyɛyi díɛw Nooni. 2002.

Ŋwaˀ ŋkɛwcɛ nˀyɛyi diɛw Nooni (Noni pre-reading book). 2004.

Ŋwà’ nʼyɛyɨ̀ diɛw Noòni. 1996.

Yɛyi keetaŋ bvuu saŋ diɛw Nooni. 2001.