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Oblo is a poorly attested, unclassified, and possibly extinct language of northern Cameroon. It is, or was, spoken in a tiny area including Gobtikéré, Ouro Bé, and Ouro Badjouma, in Pitoa, Bénoué Department.

Oblo
Region	Cameroon
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Niger–Congo?
Writing system	Unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3	obl
Glottolog	oblo1238
ELP	Oblo

Eldridge Mohammadou located Olbo around Bé, at the confluence of the Benue River and Kebi River, in Bibemi commune.[1] However, ALCAM (2012), following Ethnologue, reports that Oblo was spoken near Tcholliré in Mayo-Rey department, Northern Region.[2] Oblo is known only from eight words collected by Kurt Strümpell in the early 1900s.[1]

Oblo has been classified as one of the Adamawa languages, but it has not been included in recent classifications.[1] It might be best left unclassified altogether.[3]

Further reading

• Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1983. Peuples et Royaumes du Foumbina. In African 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.

References

На других языках

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[de] Oblo

Das Oblo ist eine möglicherweise ausgestorbene isolierte Sprache des nördlichen Kamerun.

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- [en] Oblo language

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