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'''Medumba''' (''Mə̀dʉ̂mbɑ̀'' {{IPA|mə̀ɟʝʉ̂ᵐbɑ̀}}) is a [[Grassfields language]] of [[Cameroon]]. The people who speak it originate from the [[Ndé|Nde]] division of the [[West Region (Cameroon)|West Region]] of the country, with their main settlements in [[Bangangté]], Bakong, Bangoulap, Bahouoc, Bagnoun and Tonga. It is one major [[Bamileke language]], and is located in an area where [[Sacred king|sacred kingship]] played a pivotal role in government, justice, and diplomacy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Warnier|first=Jean-Pierre|date=2015|title=Review of "Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon" by Meredith Terretta|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/592097/pdf|journal=African Studies Review|volume=58|pages=255-257|via=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Feldman-Savelsberg|first=Pamela|date=1995|title=Cooking inside: Kinship and Gender in Bangangté Idioms of Marriage and Procreation|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/645968|journal=American Ethnologist|series=3|volume=22|pages=483-501|access-date=14 March 2018|via=}}</ref> The modern history of the Bamileke area, which was a German colony placed under French trusteeship by the League of Nations in 1919, is closely associated with the nationalist movement of the [[Union des populations du Cameroun|Union des Populations du Cameroun]] (UPC), which developed primarily in the coastal hinterland (Bassa) and the western highlands (Bamileke) From 1956 to the late 1960s, this area of Cameroon experienced a period of unrest<ref>{{Cite book|title=Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon|last=Terretta|first=Meredith|publisher=Ohio University Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0821420690|location=Athens|pages=|nopp=xiv + 36}}</ref>; this episode continues to shape Bamileke political culture, and so has an impact on language identity<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bandia|first=Paul F|date=1993|title=Translation as Culture Transfer: Evidence from African Creative Writing|url=|journal=TTR: Traduction, mixité, politique|volume=6|issue=2|pages=55-78|doi=10.7202/037151ar|via=}}</ref> and the [[linguistic landscape]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ndjio|first=Basile|date=2009|title=Migration, Architecture, and the Transformation of the Landscape in the Bamileke Grassfields of West Cameroon|url=|journal=African Diaspora|volume=2|pages=73-100|doi=10.1163/187254609X430777|via=}}</ref> |
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Medumba (Mə̀dʉ̂mbɑ̀ mə̀ɟʝʉ̂ᵐbɑ̀) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. The people who speak it originate from the Nde division of the West Region of the country, with their main settlements in Bangangté, Bakong, Bangoulap, Bahouoc, Bagnoun and Tonga. It is one major Bamileke language, and is located in an area where sacred kingship played a pivotal role in government, justice, and diplomacy.[1][2] The modern history of the Bamileke area, which was a German colony placed under French trusteeship by the League of Nations in 1919, is closely associated with the nationalist movement of the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), which developed primarily in the coastal hinterland (Bassa) and the western highlands (Bamileke) From 1956 to the late 1960s, this area of Cameroon experienced a period of unrest[3]; this episode continues to shape Bamileke political culture, and so has an impact on language identity[4] and the linguistic landscape.[5]
