Projektnummer

0055150

Zusammenfassung

Beezen, a completely undescribed Benue-Congo language of probably Jukunoid affiliation, is spoken by no more than 450 individuals in the remote village of Kpwep (Furu-Awa, Menchum Division, NW Region of Cameroon). Restricted to intraethnic communication in contexts of family and village life, farm work, local council meetings and some traditional ceremonies, ongoing processes of shift towards languages of wider communication such as Jukun and Pidgin English expose Beezen to serious endangerment by severely eroding its internal register diversity and the mother tongue-competence of spea...