Jukun Takum language
Not to be confused with Jukun Wapan language or Djugun language.
| Jukun | |
|---|---|
| Jukun Takum | |
| Njikum | |
| Native to | Cameroon, Nigeria |
Native speakers |
2,400 in Cameroon (2000)[1] unknown number in Nigeria, but sufficient for significant L2 use[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
jbu |
| Glottolog |
juku1254[2] |
Jukun (Njikum), 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.
References
- 1 2 Jukun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Jukun Takum". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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