Ndai | |
States: | Cameroon |
Speakers: | 5 |
Date: | 2002 |
Ref: | e25 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Mbum–Day |
Fam4: | Mbum |
Fam5: | Northern Mbum |
Fam6: | Dama–Galke |
Iso3: | gke |
Glotto: | ndai1238 |
Glottorefname: | Ndai |
Ndai, also known as Galke or Pormi, is a nearly extinct Mbum language of northern Cameroon. There are only about a few speakers remaining in the vicinity of Tcholliré (Tcholliré commune, Mayo-Rey department, Northern Region).[1] The name of the language supposedly comes from the language's word for "cow". The language is spoken to a degree of fluency by 5 speakers, all over the age of 50, and two others are alleged to hold a conversational-level knowledge of the language.[2]