Ubang is a Bendi language of Nigeria. It is notable for having male and female word forms. UBANG located between two mountains in the Obudu Local Government Area, Cross River State
This community is Populated by energetic young men and stunning girls, Ubang is made up of three villages, Okwersing, Ofambe, and Okiro.
The language variance between males and females is what makes the community stand out the most, and they are quite proud of it.
However, both men and women can understand each other perfectly – or as well as anywhere else in the world.
These people know how other people in the neighboring village feel about their unique talent of speaking,
But this does not stop them from telling their stories, they tell their story in a way that makes people envy them a lot
According to Anthropologist Chi-Chi Undie, who has studied the community, opined that It’s almost like two different lexicons…
There are a lot of words that men and women share in common, then there are others that are totally different depending on your sex. as the example below
The myth
They have this weird belief that God came down on one of the mountains in the villages of Okiro and stood on the rock at the top of the mountain, distributing languages.
He started with them the ubang people. they claim God stood on the mountain while doing this, as His footprint is still etched on that rock to date as proof a to their claim
It was after God had distributed the languages to the men and women of Ubang, that He discovered that the languages would not go round the communities if He continued to give each for both sexes.
…and so He decided to give the other communities one language for both sexes.” According to
How this culture is been fostered
By the age of ten, boys are expected to speak the “male language” There is a stage the male will reach and he discovers he is not using his rightful language.
Nobody will tell him he should change to the male language. but he will be mocked and made a jest of by his peers, but immediately he switched to the language of his gender, he is seen as becoming matured
If a child does not switch to the correct language at a certain age, they are considered “abnormal”
You must agree with me that this is a Fascinating linguistic phenomenon
The Challenges
According to BBC report, there is also a serious concern about the survival of the various languages, as they are not written down.
It’s hard for any Ubang villager to speak a language without combining an English word.
The native language is gradually fading away as English is used to foster unity in Nigeria’s linguistic diversity.
The Nigerian Linguistic Association said that in the next few years, 50 of the nation’s 500 languages could disappear.
You may call it, Tower of babel in Nigeria version but this is absolutely true.
And the people are proud of their culture
So unique; perhaps this is the only community in the whole wide world with such feature.
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