Voko language

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Longto language)

Template:Short description

Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

Longto
Voko
RegionCameroon
Native speakers
(2,400 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3wok
Glottologlong1387
ELPTemplate:Endangered Languages Project
LinguasphereTemplate:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist
 Template:Infobox language/lingualist

Page Template:Infobox/styles-images.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

PeopleLɔŋmó or Lõmó
LanguageLɔ̀ŋtó or Lõtó

Longto (Lɔ̀ŋtó, Lõtó[2]), or Voko (Woko), is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages that is spoken in Poli Subdivision of Faro Department, Cameroon.

Names

Speakers call themselves Lɔŋmó or Lõmó, and their language Lɔ̀ŋtó or Lõtó. Voko is an exonym. They call their village Gormaya, although outsiders refer to the village as Voko. Fulfulde is the local lingua franca.[3]

Villages

Lontô is spoken by 2,400 speakers around Voko in the massifs and plains located southwest of Poli (next to Faro National Park) in Poli commune, Faro department, Northern Region.[4]

14 villages that are exclusively ethnic Longmo are Gormaya (Voko), Ouro-Kila, Delengui, Ndougouri, Longote, Paté-Petel, Paté-Manga, Ouro-Kessoum, Lenguerba, Mayo-Djarendi, Taroua, Meta-Diam, and Ngoutiri. Villages with both Longmo and Dooyaayo people are Ouro-Mbay, Salaki, and Guito.[3]

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Longto at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich (2012). Lexique Lɔ̀ŋtó-Français avec un index Français-Lɔ̀ŋtó (PDF). Lamido de Voko le Comite de Developpement du Lamidat de Voko et le Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Communaute Allemande de la Recherche Scientifique).
  3. ^ a b Scott Westermann and Annette Westermann. 2001. A Rapid Appraisal Survey of Longto ALCAM [301]: Rapid Appraisal May 2001, Poli Subdivision, Faro Division, North Province, Cameroon.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in français). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found. Template:Adamawa languages

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.