Menchum language

Menchum
Befang
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	3,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields? Momo–Tivoid? Menchum
Dialects	Modele–Ushaku Bangui–Befang–Obang Okoromandjang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bby
Glottolog	befa1241[2]

Menchum, or Befang, is a divergent Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It may be a Grassfields language or closer to Tivoid.

Befang is the local town, and also the name of the Menchum dialect spoken there.

References

1. Menchum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Befang". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.