Oblo is a poorly attested, unclassified, and possibly extinct language of northernCameroon. It is, or was, spoken in a tiny area including Gobtikéré, Ouro Bé, and Ouro Badjouma, inPitoa,Bénoué Department.
Eldridge Mohammadou located Olbo around Bé, at the confluence of theBenue River andKebi River, inBibemi commune.[2] However,ALCAM (2012), followingEthnologue, reports that Oblo was spoken nearTcholliré inMayo-Rey department, Northern Region.[3] Oblo is known only from eight words collected by Kurt Strümpell in the early 1900s.[2]
Oblo has been classified as one of theAdamawa languages, but it has not been included in recent classifications.[2] It might be best left unclassified altogether.[4]
Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1983. Peuples et Royaumes du Foumbina. InAfrican Languages and Ethnography XVII. Morimichi Tomikawa, ed. Japan: Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1979.Les Yillaga de la Bénoué: Ray ou Rey-Bouba. Paris: CNRS.
Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1980.Garoua: Tradition historique d’une cité peule du Nord-Cameroun. Paris: CNRS.
Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1983.Peuples et Etats du Foumbina et de l’Adamawa. (Traduction d’études par K. Strümpell et von Briesen). Yaoundé.
Strümpell, Kurt, and Bernard Struck. 1910. “Vergleichendes Wörterverzeichnis der Heidensprachen Adamauas”.Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 42 (314):444–448. (“Vocabulairecomparé des langues des païens de l’Adamaoua”)
Struempell, Kurt. 1912. “Die Geschichte Adamauas nach mündlichen Ueberlieferungen”.Mitt. Geogr. Gesellschaft in Hamburg 26:46–107.
^Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012).Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA.ISBN9789956796069.
