Ipulo

Ipulo is member of the Central Tivoid group of Southern Bantoid languages. It is spoken by about 2,500 people in the Southwest and Northwest regions of Cameroon. In particular, it is spoken near the town of Akwaya in the Akwaya District in the north of Manyu Department in the north of the Southwest Region, and in the Menchum Department in the Northwest Region.

Ipulo is also known as Assumbo, Asumbo or Badzumbo. Dialects include Olulu, Tinta and Etongo. Ipulo speakers call themselvesWopulo.

Ipulo alphabet

Download an alphabet chart for Ipulo (Excel)

Sample text

Vēkan vekwolunu īhū ŋgò: kahà, untūfū, uhúŋg. Ēkan yémo və̄kavil kahà yi ihú. Kikegh okul ki ōhwòŋg. Kikelow āyàv ēnda. Kēswoh ōswoh ōswoh kegh ki ōhwòŋg. Kekpa okul. Kētiŋ kahà oyu. Kēla wi ētī. Kegh nowh uŋgwò. Kētiŋ ēsayī īhū ŋgò. Hu vāmbūtū ni kikipu età ni kekwol ētī yi kahà ki āwo. Ihú keva keham. Kētiŋ.

Translation

We use these things to catch fish: a long net, a casting net and a rimmed net. One of these things is called a long fish net. Before using the long net we put poison into the river. To make the poison we pick a certain leaf. We pound this leaf into a paste with a stone and put the paste into the river. We push the poison down with a stick. Then we bend a stick and attach it to the long net. We men do this, holding the net by the stick with our hands. When the fish come we position the net underneath them. Then we take up the fish in the net.

Source:Revised Ipulo Orthography Guide, by Anna Tuinstra.

Sample video

Links

Information about Ipulo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipulo_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipulo
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipulo
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/ass
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/ipul1238
http://www.language-archives.org/language/ass

Bantoid languages

Abon,Bafanji,Bebe,Bekwarra,Daka,Ipulo,Isu,Jarawa,Ki,Medumba,Pinyin,Tiv,Yambeta

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created 16.02.26. Last modified: 16.02.26

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