Jukun Takum language

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Jukun
Jukun Takum
Njikun
Native to Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers
(L1: 2,400 cited 2000) [1]
L2: 40,000 (1979) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jbu
Glottolog juku1254

Jukun (Njikun) or more precisely Jukun Takum, is a Jukunoid language [2] of Cameroon used as a trade language in Nigeria. Though there are only a few thousand native speakers and only a dozen in Nigeria (as of 2000), it is spoken as a second language in Nigeria by tens of thousands (40,000 reported in 1979).

The name Jukun is a cover term for several related Jukunoid languages such as the much more numerous Jukun Wapan.

Wase Tofa is listed by Blench (2019) as a dialect. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Jukun at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jukun Takum". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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