Mfumte language

Mfumte
Region	Cameroon
Ethnicity	Mfumte
Native speakers	unknown (25,000 Mfumte dialect cited 1982)[1] 6,000 Kwaja and Ndaktup (2000), unknown number Fum
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Eastern Nkambe Mfumte
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: nfu – Mfumte fum – Fum kdz – Kwaja ncp – Ndaktup (Ncha, Bitwi)
Glottolog	mfum1239  (Mfumteic)[2] fumm1238  (Fum)[3]

Mfumte (Nfumte) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. It is not clear if the four varieties spoken by ethnic Mfumte—Ndaktup, Kwaja, Fum, and Mfumte proper—are mutually intelligible or distinct languages; ability to community may be either due to inherent intelligibility or to bilingualism, while Fum and Mfumte may simply be the Nigerian and Cameroonian names for the same language.

References

1. Mfumte at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Fum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Kwaja at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Ndaktup (Ncha, Bitwi) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mfumteic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Fum". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.