Ewondo
Beti Cameroonian
Ewondo text on a blackboard at a school in Yaoundé, 2019
Region	Cameroon
Ethnicity	Beti people
Native speakers	(580,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu (Zone A) Beti Ewondo
Official status
Official language in	Cameroon
Language codes
ISO 639-2	ewo
ISO 639-3	ewo
Glottolog	ewon1239
Guthrie code	A.72[2]

Ewondo also known asBeti orCameroonian is aBantu language spoken by theBeti people (more precisely Beti be Nanga, the people of the forest, or simply Beti) ofCameroon. The language had 577,700 native speakers in 1982. Ewondo is atrade language. Dialects include Badjia (Bakjo), Bafeuk, Bemvele (Mvele, Yezum, Yesoum), Bane, Beti, Enoah, Evouzom, Mbida-Bani, Mvete, Mvog-Niengue, Omvang, Yabekolo (Yebekolo), Yabeka, and Yabekanga. Ewondo speakers live primarily in Cameroon'sCentre Region and the northern part of the Océan division in theSouth Region.

Ewondo is aBantu language. It is a language of theBeti people, and is intelligible withEton.

In 2011, there was a concern among Cameroonian linguists that the language was being displaced in the country by French.^[3]

Ewondo (Beti) covers the whole of the departments ofMfoundi,Mefou-et-Afamba,Mefou-et-Akono,Nyong-et-So'o,Nyong-et-Mfoumou (Central Region), and part ofOcéan Department (Southern Region).^[4]

The Ewondo language originated in the forests south of the Sanaga river.

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The tones are indicated with diacritics on the vowels:

• the high tone is indicated with an acute accent:áéə́ɛ́íóɔ́ú;
• the high tone is indicated with a grave accent:àèə̀ɛ̀ìòɔ̀ù;
• the mid tone is indicated with a macron:āēə̄ɛ̄īōɔ̄ū;
• the low tone, the most frequent tone, is indicated by the absence of diacritics:aeəɛioɔu;
• the rising tone is indicated with a caron:ǎěə̌ɛ̌ǐǒɔ̌ǔ;
• the falling tone is indicated with a circumflex:âêə̂ɛ̂îôɔ̂û.

• Ewondo Populaire

Ewondo language test ofWikipedia atWikimedia Incubator

• Ewondo alphabet and pronunciation
• Database of audio recordings in Ewondo - basic Catholic prayers^{[permanent dead link]}

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