Jukun Takum language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

  • Atlantic - Congo Benue - Congo Jukunoide languages centrally Jukun languages

Jbu

The Jukun ( Njikum ) or more precisely Jukun TAKUM is a jukunoide language of Cameroon, which is used as a trade language in Nigeria.

Although there are 2,500 speakers in Cameroon and a few dozen in Nigeria ( as of 2000) only a few native speakers of the language, the Jukun TAKUM in Nigeria tens of thousands ( 40,000 in 1979 ) is used as a second language.

The name Jukun is an umbrella term for several related languages ​​jukunoide how far the speaker richer Jukun Wapan.

Swell

  • Jukun - TAKUM report in Ethnologue
  • Jukunoid languages
  • Single language
Language family Atlantic languages
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