Cuvok language

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Cuvok
Native to Cameroon
Region Far North Province
Native speakers
13,500 (2021) [1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cuv
Glottolog cuvo1236

Cuvok (French : Tchouvok) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon. [1]

Cuvok is spoken by about 5,000 speakers (ALCAM 1983) in and around Tchouvok, near Zamay (Mokolo commune, Mayo-Tsanaga department), Far North Region. Cuvok is about as closely related to Mefele (especially the Muhura dialect) as North Mofu is to South Mofu. [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Cuvok at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
  2. ↑ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM)[Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN   9789956796069.

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