Kutin language

Kutin
Peere
Region Cameroon
Native speakers
15,000 in Cameroon (1993)[1]
and a few in Nigeria
Niger–Congo
Dialects
Peere
Potopo
Patapori
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pfe
Glottolog peer1241[2]

Kutin is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages. Most Nigerian speakers moved to Cameroon when the Gashaka-Gumti National Park was established.

Blench (2004) considers the three varieties, Peere, Potopo (Kotopo), and Patapori, to be separate languages.

References

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


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