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Yemba

A language of Cameroon

ISO 639-3: ybb

Population	300,000.
Region	West Province, Menoua Division, Dschang area.
Language map	Southwestern Cameroon, Enlarged Area, reference number 190
Alternate names	Atsang-Bangwa, Bafou, Bamileke-Yemba, Bangwa, Dschang, Tchang
Dialects	Yemba, Foreke Dschang (Dschang, Tchang).
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Wide Grassfields, Narrow Grassfields, Mbam-Nkam, Bamileke
Language development	Bible portions: 2000.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Part of a language subgroup which includes Ngwe [nwe] and Ngiemboon [nnh].

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ANDERSON, Stephen C., author. 1980. "An autosegmental account of Bamileke-Dschang tonology."

BIRD, Steven, author. 1996. Dshang syllable structure and moraic aspiration.  

BIRD, Steven, author. 1997. Dschang syllable structure.  

BIRD, Steven, author. 1997. Tonal variation in the Bamileke Dschang noun associative construction and verb paradigms.  

BIRD, Steven, author. 1998. When marking tone reduces fluency: an orthography experiment in Cameroon.  

BIRD, Steven, author. 1999. Multidimensional exploration of online linguistic field data.

HARRO, Gretchen, author. 1989. "Extensions verbales en yemba (bamileke-dschang)."

HARRO, Gretchen; HAYNES, Nancy, authors. 1991. Grammar sketch of Yemba.  

HARRO, Gretchen; HAYNES, Nancy, authors. 1998. Notes on discourse features of Yemba narrative texts.  

HARRO, Gretchen; HAYNES, Nancy, authors. 2002. Features of paragraph and section breaks in Yemba expository and hortatory discourse.  

HARRO, Gretchen; HAYNES, Nancy, authors. 2005. Forms of exhortation in a Yemba text.  

HAYNES, Nancy R., author. 1989. "Esquisse phonologique du yemba."

HAYNES, Nancy R., compiler. 1996. Two Yémba texts interlinearised (language data).  

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

ROBERTS, David, author. 2008. "Thirty years of tone orthography testing in West African languages (1977-2007)."  

Vernacular Publications

Anu ŋkū̶ŋfák: aŋwaˀne wɔ tswí-áziˀne (L'histoire de Kande, livre de l'apprenant). 2007.