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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 members of the Ngumba, Kwasio, Gyele and Mabi peoples. 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. Dialects are Kwasio ( Kwassio, Bisio), Mvumbo ( Ngumba, Ngoumba, Mgoumba, Mekuk), and Mabi (Mabea). The Gyele speak the subdialects of Mvumbo, Gyele in the north and Kola Koya in the south, variously spelled ''Giele, Gieli, Gyeli, Bagiele, Bagyele, Bajele, Bajeli, Bogyel, Bogyeli, Bondjiel'' and ''Likoya, Bako, Bakola, Bakuele'', also ''Bekoe''. The local derogatory term for pygmies, ''Babinga,'' is also used. ''Glottolog'' adds Shiwa. Kwasio is a tonal language. As a Bantu language, it has noun class system. The Kwasio noun class system is somewhat reduced, having retained only 6 genders (a gender being a pairing of a singular and a plural noun class). ==See also== The term ''Bakola'' is also used for the pygmies of the northern Congo–Gabon border region, which speak the Ngom language. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kwasio language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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