**7.2 Qualifying a village, country in sentence construction**

People have a way of saying in their local languages that they are going to their villages. When people say they are going to their villages or tribal or ethnic territories they say that they are going to their countries. For example the Dualas will say *Mboua*. Yet, when they say they are going to their country, Cameroon, they still say that they are going to *Mboua*. Meaning that *Mboua* stands for village and for country. For speakers of each language this distinction between village, tribal or ethnic territory or territorial entity called country is seemingly not drawn as you will have in the English and other western languages. **Table 2** below is illustrative of this and other examples.

The people speaking these languages call their rulers, Kings.
