Nso language

Nsɔ
Lamnsɔ’
Spoken in	Cameroon
Native speakers	125,000 in Cameroon  (1987)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields Ring Nsɔ
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lns

Lamnso (Lamnsɔ’) is the language of the Nso people of Cameroon. A few may remain in Nigeria. It is a Grassfields language with ten major noun classes.[1] The ISO 639-3 code is lns.[2] This language is spoken by about over 100,000 people.^[1]

Phrases

• Beri wo. Thank you. (Deutsch: Danke)
• A saka? What news? (Greeting). (Deutsch: Wie Gehts?)
• Saka yo dzə. No news (Reply) OR M bo sa. I am fine. (Deutsch: Gut)
• Nyuy servi wo. God bless you (Greeting). (Deutsch: Gott segne dich)
• Fo mo. Give me. (Deutsch: Gib mir)
• A du fe? Where are you going? (Deutsch: Wo gehen Sie hin?)
• Yir yee dzə la? What is your name? (Deutsch: Wie heißen Sie?)
• Yir yem dzə Luckong. My name is Luckong. (Deutsch: Meine Name ist Luckong)
• A dzə wan la? Whose child are you? (Deutsch: Zu welchen Eltern gehören Sie?)
• M dzə wan Emma. I am Emma's child. (Deutsch: Ich bin das Kind von Emma)
• Fon Nso dze la? Who is the Traditional ruler of Nso? (Deutsch: Wie heißt der Nso Oberhaupt?)

Animal names

• baar; leopard
• jwi: dog
• kan: monkey
• kitam: elephant
• mbvèreh: lion
• shishuuiy: duica
• bvey: goat

References

1. ^ paul peek. "Lamnso". Flw.com. http://www.flw.com/languages/lamnso.htm. Retrieved 2011-10-21. 

Bibliography

• McGarrity, Laura and Botne, Robert (2001). Between Agreement and Case Marking in Lamnso. IUWPL 3: Explorations in African Linguistics: From Lamnso' to Sesotho (2001), edited by Robert Botne and Rose Vondrasek, pp. 53–70. Bloomington, IN: Noun classes and categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.

External links

• Map of Lamnso' (Nso) language from the LL-Map project
• Information on Lamnso language from the MultiTree project
• ISO 639 Code from SIL.
• SIL Language entry.
• ODIN Language entry.