Jukun Takum language

Jukun
Jukun
Jukun Takum
Njikun
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers	(L1: 2,400 cited 2000); L2: 40,000 (1979)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo languages Volta–Congo languages Benue–Congo Jukunoid Central Jukun languages Jukun; ; ; ; ; ; ;
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 2 Jukun at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Jukun Takum". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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[e26-1] 1 2 Jukun at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Jukun Takum". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[BlenchAtlas4-3] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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