English – Lekongho Dictionary

In 2005, a United Nations study reported that
half of the world’s languages (estimated at 6,000) would disappear by
the end of this century. A third of these endangered languages are in
Africa where, according to the same study, nearly 250 languages have
disappeared in the last century. Language is the heart, identity,
storage system for the collective and unique memory and experience of
every culture, people, including their natural habitat.  Loss of
language means loss of the ability to retain and pass on not just a
belief system but also invaluable knowledge to future generations.

This English-Lekongho/Lekongho-English Dictionary
is a modest first attempt to minimize the envisaged sad phenomenon of
language loss. Nkongho-Mbo people speak Lekongho, one of the five
variants of the Mbo language of the Mbo ethnic group of Cameroon, with
their ancestral home in the Kupe Muanenguba Administrative Area of the
South-west Region. With this book, the authors’ fervent hope is that
there will no longer surface any justification to continue to refrain
from speaking Lekongho on a daily basis. This effort will help to
regionalize, nationalize and internationalize the Lekongho language
since Nkongho people are spread all over the country, Africa and the
world.