Jukun Takum language

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Jukun
Jukun Takum
Njikun
Native toCameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers
L1: 2,400 (2000)[1]
L2: 40,000 (1979)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jbu
Glottologjuku1254

Jukun (Njikun), or more precisely Jukun Takum, is a Jukunoid language 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.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Jukun at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.