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Duala ( also spelled Douala, Diwala, Dwela, Dualla, and Dwala ) is the language spoken by the Duala and Mungo peoples of Cameroon.
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Duala and also
* King Joss ( also known as George ) of the Duala people of Cameroon
Duala is also spoken by a great part of the Bassa and Bakoko people.
The British also wanted to mould the Duala to their own concepts of civilization.
Duala and Douala
* coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Duala ( or Douala ), and many smaller groups in the Southwest ( 12 %);
Police force at Douala | Duala on Kaiser ’ s birthday, 1901
The first German trading post in the Duala area ( present day Douala ) on the Kamerun River delta ( present day Wouri River delta ) was established in 1868 by the Hamburg trading company C. Woermann.
The settlement grew as a market town for Duala ( or Douala ) fishermen, Bakweri ( Kpwe people ) farmers and hunters from Molyko, Bwenga, Bulu and Bokova.
* South: By Bonaberi Duala ( or Douala ) Sub Divisional Urban Council
Duala or Douala can refer to:
* Douala, the largest city in Cameroon, founded by the Duala people
The main Duala villages soon grew into a prospering township named Douala for the people who lived there.
By the 1940s, many Duala had attained prominence as builders, as well, servicing the growing cities of Douala and Victoria.
In 1937, they expelled the Duala from Akwa town ( an area of Douala ), although they allowed them to maintain ownership of the land.
Douala is their traditional capital, and many Duala live in and around the city, although today it has come to reflect the diversity of Cameroon as a whole.
Duala and is
The song Alane by artist Wes Madiko is sung in Duala and reached # 1 position in over 9 European countries.
The town of Limbe is a mixture of Bakweri, Duala, and other ethnic groups.
Mokpwe is part of the family of Duala languages in the Bantu group of the Niger – Congo language family.
This is particularly true among the Isubu, many of whom are bilingual in Duala or Mokpwe.
The Ngondo is a traditional festival of the Duala, although today all of Cameroon's coastal Sawa peoples are invited to participate.
He is a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, though his mother was a Duala.
His best known work is his dictionary about the Duala language.
The Duala trace their ancestry back to a man named Mbedi, who lived in an area called Bakota in what is today Gabon or the Republic of the Congo.
It is unclear whether these were the ancestral Duala, or perhaps the Bakoko or Bassa, whom the Duala later displaced.
The tongue is closely related to other Duala languages, which may represent a dialect continuum.
Duala is part of the Bantu group of the Niger – Congo language family.
Duala is used as a trade languages, due largely to the spread of the tongue by early missionaries.
This is particularly true among the neighbouring Wovea, many of whom speak Duala in lieu of their native tongue, and the Isubu, many of whom are bilingual in Duala.
The rate of literacy is relatively high among the Duala, though this is for reading and writing European languages.
Duala inheritance is patrilineal ; upon the father's death, his property is split among his male heirs.
A typical Duala racing pirogue is 20 – 28 metres long with no keel and a bow carved with intricate designs.
Another of these is the muemba ( plural: miemba ), a grouping of all Duala of a certain age range or tribal clan.
Duala and language
* Map of Duala language from the LL-Map project
* Information on Duala language from the MultiTree project
Throughout his childhood, Dibango slowly forgot the Yabassi language in favor of the Duala.
The song " Soul Makossa " on the record of the same name contains the lyrics " makossa ", which means "( I ) dance " in his native tongue, the Cameroonian language, Duala ).
* Duala language
* Duala language, part of the Bantu languages
The early missionaries learned the Duala language and invented a written form for it, as Bible translation was one of their earliest priorities.
The Duala speak a language of the same name.
At least until the German period, Duala men used a kind of " drum language ", tapping out coded messages to communicate news over long distances.
The Duala are Bantu in language and origin.
Duala is part of the Bantu group of the Niger – Congo language family.
The language had 600 speakers in 1977, although many Wovea speak Duala in lieu of their native tongue.
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