Kwasio language

The Kwasio language, also known as Ngumba / Mvumbo, Bujeba, and Gyele / Kola, is a language of Cameroon, spoken in the south along the coast and at the border with Equatorial Guinea by some 70,000[citation needed] members of the Ngumba, Kwasio, Gyele and Mabi peoples.

[8] The Kwasio, Ngumba, and Mabi are village farmers; the Gyele (also known as the Kola or Koya) are nomadic Pygmy hunter-gatherers living in the rain forest.

They use dogs, traps, machetes, spears, and nets to hunt and catch animals for food.

Deforestation has affected their subsistence, and they have recently begun to benefit from selling baskets and meat to tourists.

[9] Dialects are Kwasio (also known as Kwassio, Bisio), Mvumbo (also known as Ngumba, Ngoumba, Mgoumba, Mekuk), and Mabi (Mabea).

In Equatorial Guinea, the Bujeba dialect is spoken around Southern Bata and South of Rio Benito.

According to ALCAM (2012), the non-Pygmy Kwasio people speak two language varieties, Mvumbo and Mabi, which have moderate mutual intelligibility.

The Bisio group of Kwasio people live in Equatorial Guinea, as well as in Gabon where they are known under the ethnonym Shiwo.

[11] Mabi, the more western dialect, is spoken on the Atlantic coast around Kribi, among Batanga-speaking populations.

Since they are forced to take undesirable land, they are surrounded by other Bantu farmer communities that do not speak the Gyeli language, and since the Bagyeli don’t generally ascribe to farming for their food as their Bantu neighbors do, they are considered backwards, less-intelligent neighbors who need to succumb to the way the peoples around them live.

To express this concept, the language would add the suffix '-ɛsɛ' onto the root word for 'learn' which is 'gyik' to make the word 'gyikɛse' which would then have the literal meaning, 'make learn' An example of the a direct verb accompanied by a complementize morpheme is the sentence, 'I make you laugh' which would translate to 'mɛ nzíí sâ nâ wɛ dyɔ.'.

'[3] The term Bakola is also used for the pygmies of the northern Congo–Gabon border region, which speak the Ngom language.