Kulung language (Jarawan)
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| Kulung | |
|---|---|
| Kúkùlúŋ | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Taraba State |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2012)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bbu |
| Glottolog | kulu1255 |
| ELP | Kulung (Nigeria) |
| Kùlúng[2] | |
|---|---|
| People | Bákùlúng |
| Language | Kúkùlúŋ |
Kulung is a Jarawan language spoken in Nigeria.[3]
Kulung can also refer to an unrelated Chadic language of the same name spoken in Karim Lamido LGA of Taraba State and related to Piya.[2]
References
[edit]- Notes
- ↑ Kulung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ↑ Adelberger, Jörg; Blench, Roger (2026). "The peopling of the Muri Mountains, Northern Nigeria: evidence from linguistics and ethnography". AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. doi:10.18716/OJS/AAEO/2026_12031.
- Bibliography
Adelberger, J. "A Comprehensive Ethnographic Overview of the Muri Mountains (Northern Nigeria)", Mandaras Publishing 2024, Ramsgate, Kent (UK) (e-publication: https://www.mandaras.info/Muri-Mountains.html)
- Adelberger, J. & Kleinewillinghöfer, U., 2016 A Kulung Vocabulary compiled by the missionary Ira McBride" Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) 167 Archived 2022-10-01 at the Wayback Machine.
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