An Ewondo Sociocultural Dataset

A Ewondo Sociocultural Dataset is a sociocultural and onomastic dataset documenting the Ewondo community of Cameroon (administratively known as Ewondo << Mvog Tsung , Mbala >>, self-designated << efulán məyoŋ >>), collected under the project "Projet de confection d'un didacticiel sur la composition des peuplements au Cameroun" (a didactic-software project on the composition of Cameroon's settled peoples), coordinated by Prof. Emmanuel Ngue Um for CERDOTOLA (the Inter-State Institution of scientific co-operation for the preservation, diffusion and valorization of the African cultural heritage) during the project's pilot data-collection phase in March-April 2020. Unlike a purely linguistic corpus, the dataset foregrounds the community itself as the unit of documentation: its history, social organisation, religious life and material culture, with onomastics, common expressions and a numeral system providing a linguistic component elicited in the community's own speech (recorded in the International Phonetic Alphabet, or in a Latin-based approximation where IPA was not available to the fieldworker). The Ewondo (Efoulan) are a majority community who trace their origin to a crossing of the Sanaga River, associated in oral tradition with a serpent. Marriage is exogamous, regulated by *OLUGU* avoidance rules that govern relations between in-laws and their kin. The community is predominantly Catholic and no longer maintains formal ancestor cults. The founding ancestor is Ataŋgana Esomba. The dataset's primary added value lies in documenting the Ewondo community's own self-description — its social organisation, kinship and marriage practices, religious and symbolic life, economy and material culture, and internal system of personal, ethnic and place names — rather than only its named language or dialect. This community-centred, ethnographic design distinguishes it from language-only documentation, while the accompanying onomastic, common-expression and numeral-system data still make the dataset usable for lexicographic and comparative linguistic work on the Ewondo variety.