Naki language

Naki
Munkaf
Region	Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers	unknown (undated figure of 3,000 in Cameroon (1993), 2,000 in Nigeria)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Eastern Beboid Naki
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: mff – Naki (Cameroon) buz – Bukwen jms – Mashi
Glottolog	naki1240[2]

Naki, or Munkaf, is an Eastern Beboid language of Cameroon and Nigeria. There is no name for the language; it is known by the villages it is spoken in, including Naki and Mekaf (Munkaf) in Cameroon and Bukwen and Mashi in Nigeria, the latter listed as separate languages by Ethnologue, though they are not distinct.

References

1. Naki (Cameroon) at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
   Bukwen at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
   Mashi at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nakic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.