Nyong language

Nyong
Mumbake
Native to Nigeria, Cameroon
Region Adamawa State
Native speakers
30,000 in Cameroon (2008 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 muo
Glottolog nyon1241[2]

Nyong (Daganyonga) is a Leko language spoken in two well-separated enclaves in Cameroon and Nigeria. Cameroonian speakers consider themselves to be ethnically Chamba.

References

  1. Nyong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nyong". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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