Not to be confused with Tigon language , Mfumte language.
Mbembe
Native to
Nigeria
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
Atlantic–Congo languages
Benue–Congo languages
Cross River
Upper Cross
Central
East–West
Mbembe
Language codes
ISO 639-3
mfn – inclusive code Individual code: oda – Odut village
Glottolog
cros1244
ELP
Odut
Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria. Odut,[2] a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and may be extinct.[3]
^Mbembe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) Odut village at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Mbembe is a Cross River language of Nigeria. Odut, a divergent variety spoken in a village far South of the rest of Mbembe, had 20 speakers in 1980 and...
Look up mbembe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mbembe can be: Achille Mbembe, Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist Mbembelanguage, Cross-River...
Joseph-Achille Mbembe, known as Achille Mbembe (/əmˈbɛmbeɪ/; born 1957), is a Cameroonian historian, political theorist, and public intellectual who is...
Index of Nigerian Languages (2nd edition). Dallas: SIL.mbembelanguage in cross river Blench, Roger (1998) 'The Status of the Languages of Central Nigeria'...
Mbembe, or more specifically Tigon Mbembe, is a Jukunoid language of Cameroon and Nigeria. The alphabet is based on the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages...
how some must die. The deployment of necropolitics creates what Achille Mbembe calls deathworlds, or "new and unique forms of social existence in which...
leaves the Wurbo language Shoo-Minda-Nye as unclassified within Jukun–Mbembe–Wurbo, and includes the unclassified Benue–Congo language Tita in its place...
works projects and military conscription. Mbembe contrasts colonial violence with that of the postcolony. Mbembe demonstrates that violence in the postcolony...
Cross River languages form a branch of the Cross River languages of Cross River State, Nigeria. The most populous languages are Lokö and Mbembe, with 100...
essays by Cameroonian philosopher and political theorist Achille Mbembe. The book is Mbembe's most well-known work and explores questions of power and subjectivity...
before spreading to other settlements within Ebonyi State. Abakaliki is a Mbembe term the emerged before the coming of the later Abakaliki People. Orring...
several languages of Cameroon, including: Feʼfeʼ Mbembe Mbo (?): but not Akoose, though it does have phonemes /aa/ and /ɑɑ/; nor Bakaka. in some languages, the...
The Nyima language, known as Lenyima or after the people as Anyima, is an Upper Cross River language of Nigeria. Nyima at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription...
Monica Hunter, Bronislaw Malinowski, Z. K. Matthews, D. A. Masolo, Achille Mbembe, Thomas Mofolo, John Middleton, Simon Ottenberg, J. D. Y. Peel, Mamphela...
the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, the Loch Ness Monster, and the Mokele-mbembe. Scholars have noted that the cryptozoology subculture rejected mainstream...
neocolonialism. Mafeje and Achille Mbembe disagreed about the concept of Afro-pessimism. In his book On the Postcolony, Mbembe criticised what he saw as a pervasive...
official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the...
the Yakurr /Agoi/Bahumono ethnic groups in Yakurr and Abi LGA, while the Mbembe are predominantly found in Obubra LGA. Further up the core northern part...
Loveland frog – Humanoid cryptid (The United States (Ohio)) Makara Mokele Mbembe Moʻo (Hawaiian) class of shapeshifting lizard monsters Morgawr (Cornish) –...
and this paved the way for scholars such as Simon Gikandi and Achille Mbembe to "further develop" the term, Afropolitan, into a widely known and used...
The Yigha language, known as Leyigha or after the people as Ayigha (Asiga), is an Upper Cross River language of Nigeria. Yigha at Ethnologue (18th ed....
Mgbo, Izzi, Ezaa, Edda, Ikwo, Kukele, Legbo, ohofia-agba, Mbembe,Okposi,Uburu. Languages of Ebonyi State listed by LGA: Ebonyi State are predominantly...
original (PDF) on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-01-08. Demolin, Didier; Ngonga-Ke-Mbembe, Hubert; Soquet, Alain (2002). "Phonetic characteristics of an unexploded...
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