Jimi language (Cameroon)

Not to be confused with Jimi language (Nigeria).
Jimi
Jimjimən
Native to Cameroon
Region Far North Province
Native speakers
unknown (3,500 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jim
Glottolog jimi1254[2]

Jimi (Djimi), also known as Jimjimən and 'Um Falin, is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province on the Nigerian border in and around Bourrha. Dialects are Djimi, Jimo, Malabu, Wadi, and Zumo.

Notes

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


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