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There are three primary objectives in this book. The first is to develop a linguistic system for writing Central Standard -geumba (CS-). The second objective is to assist those who speak CS- to be able to write it. The third is to assist none native speakers of CS- to learn to speak and write Central Standard -geumba.
The area comprising the villages of Mankon, Tsohn-Mba' Mbatu and Nso'ñgwa constitute a geo-political and linguistic region referred to as Central -geumba. Although Ndzöng is not in the geo-political region, it is within the Central -geumba linguistic region and the dialect is essentially Mankon. Since the -geumba dialects spoken in the geo-political and linguistic region are very similar, the -geumba language in this book is referred to as Central Standard -geumba (CS-) - a derivative of the dialects in Central -geumba linguistic region of Bamenda. This derivative is spoken in the urbanized areas of Bamenda; notably in Nitob, Ntarinkon, Mbatu and Nsö'ñgwa where a confluence of the Central -geumba dialects has resulted in the evolution of CS-.
In order to further advance CS-, a streaming approach is used in standardizing the written language. Streaming involves navigating through the Central -geumba dialects and looking for new words, commonality in pronunciation/usage of existing words as well as looking for words that have similar meaning but do not have a complex speech sound.
The reader will find value added information in this book which here-to-fore has not been present in -geumba lexicon such as, numeral counts up to one centillion, metric conversions to CS-, Cardinal points in CS-, and a new format for describing time in CS-.
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