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Charlotte Dipanda (born 18 July 1985) in Yaoundé, Cameroon is a Cameroonian singer, who plays mostly acoustic music. Her lyrics are in French, her native language Bakaka, and in Douala.
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The Manenguba languages, also known as the Mbo cluster, are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken on and around the Manenguba mountain range in south-western Cameroon.
The people speaking the various Manenguba languages belong to the following tribes or nations: Mienge, Mbo, Basossi, Bakossi, Elung, Nninong, Mousmenam, Manengouba, Bareko, Manehas, Bakaka, Balondo, Babong and Bafun.
The population speaking the Manenguba languages was estimated in 1984 to be about 230,000 people.
According to Hedinger (1984), there are at least 23 different Manenguba languages and dialects.
The best known of these, and the first to have a grammar written for it, is Akoose, spoken in a wide area to the west of the mountain.
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| Charlotte Dipanda at the Yaoundé Multipurpose Sports Complex, in 2016 |
A lexico-statistical study by the Swiss linguist Robert Hedinger (1984) showed that the various languages can be classified as follows:
North-Eastern Group
- Mbo of Mboébo
- Mbo of Ngwatta
- North-Western Group
- Myəngə (Mienge, Mbo of Nl
- Mkaaeʔ (Bakaka)
- Belon (Balondo)
- Babong
- Mwaneka (Baneka)
- Manenguba
- Mwahɛd (Manehas)
- Bafun
- Mbaʔ (Bareko)
Central Group: Western Cluster
- Akɔɔse (Kose, Akosi, Bakossi, Bekoose, Koose, Nkoosi, Nkosi
- Nnɛnong (Nninong, Ninong)
- Mwamenam (Mouamenam)
- Eluŋ
- Ngemengə (Ngemengoe)
- Mbo of Ekanang (Mbouroukou)
The languages of the Eastern Cluster are closely related and can be considered as dialects of the same language, although they have no common name.
In the Western Cluster, most of the languages are also closely related, although Mbo of Ekanang, situated on the north-east side of the mountain, stands slightly apart from the others
Charlotte Dipanda holds endorsement deals, having gone on to be a Unicef ambassador, in 2019.
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Spotify Numbers
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Heart Guard (feat. Charlott... 1,681,818
On s'en fout 538,537
Heart in cage 1,011,268
Hello 1,125,311
She didn't see 1,006,262
Popular releases
Dube L'am 2011. Album
CD 2021. Album
Massa 2015. Album
A day in my life2 015. Album
A day in my life 2017 Album
Our mistake 2023 Album
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