Ewondo (Fang) Phrasebook

Trilingual Phrasebook : French - English- Ewondo (Fang) Languages

Ewondo Language is a good representation of the family of Beti-Pahouin and Fang languages spoken in Central Africa by over 3.5 million people scattered in six countries: Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo - Brazzaville, Central African Republic and Sao Tome.

This application is the android version of the book "Trilingual phrasebook in Ewondo language - part I" published in January 2016 by Claude Lionel Mvondo Edzoa and Rodrigue Tchamna. The book can be downloaded via the following: https://www.createspace.com/5987054.

With this application, you can search for a sentence in English, French or Ewondo, using the Clafrica code.

This French-English-Ewondo trilingual phrasebook contains more than 1500 words and sentences carefully selected from the most common expressions used in daily life conversations.

The guide is well organized in 31 chapters including everything you need in order to communicate fluently in daily life.

The book targets three categories of people: 1) French-speakers keen on learning Ewondo and/or English, 2) English-speakers wanting to learn French and/or Ewondo, 3) native speakers of Ewondo who want to learn French and/or English.

More on the Fang language

Fang is an important transnational language of western equatorial Africa spoken altogether by

1,080,000 people distributed in southern Cameroon (ca. 110,000), continental Equatorial Guinea

(ca. 575,000), Gabon (374,000), and Congo (Brazzaville) (6,000). It belongs to the subgroup A70

(Beti-Fang, Ewondo-Fang) of the “zone” A of Bantu languages together with four languages

localized in southern Cameroon: Eton (52,000 speakers), Ewondo (578,000 speakers), BebeleBebil

(30,000 speakers) and Bulu(-Bene) (174,000 speakers). The five A70 languages are closely

related on a level of partial mutual intelligibility. The peoples who speak these languages feel as if

they are part of an interethnic entity called bə̀tí (‘lords')

Source:

Raoul Zamponi

Università degli Studi di Siena