Luo language (Cameroon)
Nilotic language
The Luo language (Kasabe) is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Mambila in the Nyalang area, spoken in a section of the Atta region of Cameroon. The last speaker, a man named Bogon, died on 5 November 1995; he was said to be "well over" 100 years old at the time of his death. One of Bogon's sisters survived him but she reportedly did not know the language.
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Bibliography
Connell, B. (1995). Voices from the Grave: Dying languages and the complexity of the Mambiloid group. Paper presented at the 25th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden.
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