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.
located Olbo around Bé, at the confluence of the Benue River and Kebi River, in Bibemi commune. However, ALCAM (2012), following Ethnologue, reports that Oblo was spoken near Tcholliré in Mayo-Rey department, Northern Region. Oblo is known only from eight words collected by Kurt Strümpell in the early 1900s.
Oblo has been classified as one of the Adamawa languages, but it has not been included in recent classifications. It might be best left unclassified altogether.
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 dâÂÂune cité peule du Nord-Cameroun. Paris: CNRS.
- Mohammadou, Eldridge. 1983. Peuples et Etats du Foumbina et de lâÂÂAdamawa. (Traduction dâÂÂétudes par K. Strümpell et von Briesen). Yaoundé.
- Strümpell, Kurt, and Bernard Struck. 1910. âÂÂVergleichendes Wörterverzeichnis der Heidensprachen AdamauasâÂÂ. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 42 (314):444âÂÂ448. (âÂÂVocabulairecomparé des langues des païens de lâÂÂAdamaouaâÂÂ)
- Struempell, Kurt. 1912. âÂÂDie Geschichte Adamauas nach mündlichen UeberlieferungenâÂÂ. Mitt. Geogr. Gesellschaft in Hamburg 26:46âÂÂ107.
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