Akum language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

  • Atlantic - Congo Benue - Congo Jukunoide languages

Aku

The language Akum (also Anyar and Okum, ISO 639-3 is aku ) is a jukunoide language that is spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria.

She is a platoide language from the subgroup Yukuben - Kuteb from the group of the Benue - Congo languages ​​within the Niger -Congo language family.

The Akum is spoken in Cameroon at the Nigerian border and in the adjacent areas of Nigeria. It has about 1,400 speakers in Cameroon in the North West Province. The people who speak them, are the Anyar.

The language is considered an endangered language because the speaker mostly about going to speak English or French, the official language of Nigeria respectively Cameroon.

Websites

  • Ethnologue
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