Jukun Takum language

Not to be confused with Jukun Wapan language or Djugun language.

Jukun
Jukun Takum
Njikum
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers	2,400 in Cameroon (2000)^[1] unknown number in Nigeria, but sufficient for significant L2 use^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Jukunoid Central Jukun languages Jukun
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`jbu`
Glottolog	`juku1254`^[2]

Jukun (Njikum), or more precisely Jukun Takum, is a Jukunoid language of Cameroon used as a trade language in Nigeria. Though there are only a few thousand native speakers, and only a dozen in Nigeria (as of 2000), it is spoken as a second language in Nigeria by tens of thousands (40,000 reported in 1979).

The name Jukun is a cover term for several related Jukunoid languages, such as the much-more-numerous Jukun Wapan.

References

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

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