Harshen Nimbari (kuma Niam-Niam ), wanda ba a magana, ya kasance memba na rukunin Leko – Nimbari na harsunan Savanna . An yi magana a arewacin Kamaru . Ethnologue (ed na 22) ya lissafa kauyukan Badjire, Gorimbari, da Padjara-Djabi a matsayin wuraren Nimbari a sassan Bénoué da Mayo-Louti.

Nimbari
Niam-Niam
Yanki northern Cameroon
Ƙabila 130 (2002)[1]
1930se25
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-3 nmr
Glottolog nimb1256[2]

An yi wa Nimbari lakabin "G12" a cikin shawarwarin iyali da harshen Adamawa na Joseph Greenberg .

Rarrabawa

gyara sashe

Nimbari yana kusa da Pitoa (Pitoa commune, Bénoué sashen) da Mayo-Louti ( Figuil commune), Yankin Arewa. Bai kamata abin da ake kira Nyam-Nyam na Mayo-Kébi ya ruɗe da abin da ake kira Nyam-Nyam na Tignère da Galim ( Yankin Adamawa ), wanda ainihin sunansa Nizaa (ko Suga), na ƙungiyar Mambiloid .

Tarihi da rarrabawa

gyara sashe

Kastenholz and Kleinewillinghöfer (2012) lura cewa Nimbari ba za a iya rarraba da tabbaci saboda iyakance bayanai. [3] Sunan Fali ne ma'ana 'mutanen Mbari'. Mutanen da ake kira Nimbari a halin yanzu suna jin Kangou (ko Kaangu, Kaang), nau'ikan Kudancin Fali, kuma suna bayyana sunan ƙabila Nimbari tare da ƙauyen su, Gorimbari. [4] Kastenholz da Kleinewillinghöfer (2012) sun ruwaito daga balaguron balaguro na 2008 cewa sunan Mbaari yana nufin wani inselberg (Yaren Fali: ɡɔ́rì) tsakiyar ƙauyen Gorimbari (Gorimbaara [ɡóːrímbáːrà]). An samo Nimbari daga kalmar Fali níí mbáárì 'mutane/mutum ( niru ) na Mbaari'.

Strümpell (1922/23) ya ruwaito Nimbari ya zama mai cin gashin kansa na masu magana da harshen Niam-Niam . [5] Asalinsu, Strümpell (1910) ya kira yaren Niam-Niam, kuma ya rubuta wasu ƙayyadaddun bayanai masu inganci daga masu tunawa da tsofaffi; Harshen ya riga ya daina amfani da yau da kullun a lokacin tattara bayanai. [6] Kastenholz and Kleinewillinghöfer (2012) lura cewa wasu abubuwa a cikin jerin kalmomin Strümpell suna raba kamanceceniya da harsunan Duru (Dii, Duupa, Dugun), da kuma Samba Leko da Kolbila zuwa ƙarami. Duk da haka, yawancin kalmomi ba su da kwatankwacin kamanceceniya da sauran harsunan Adamawa .

  1. Samfuri:E15
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nimbari". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer. 2012. Nimbari as a language name. Adamawa Languages Project.
  4. Westermann, Scott, and Annette Westermann. 2001. Sociolinguistic language survey of Nimbari ALCAM [393]. Rapid Appraisal May–June 2001, Basheo and Guider Subdivisions, Benoué and Mayo-Louti Divisions, North Province, Cameroon. Ngaoundéré: LTB Cameroon.
  5. Strümpell, F. 1922/23. 'Wörterverzeichnis der Heidensprachen des Mandaragebirges', Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 13: 47-75, 109-149.
  6. Strümpell, F. 1910. 'Vergleichendes Wörterverzeichnis der Heidensprachen Adamauas, von Hauptmann Strümpell – Garua. Mit Vorbemerkungen von Bernhard Struck – Groß-Lichterfelde', Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 3/4: 444-488.