Mbum languages

Mbum
Geographic
distribution:
southern Chad, northwestern CAR, northern Cameroon, eastern Nigeria
Linguistic classification:

Niger–Congo

Subdivisions:
  • Central
  • Northern
  • Mbum
Glottolog: mbum1257[1]

The Mbum languages are a small group of the Mbum–Day branch of the erstwhile Adamawa languages, spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Cameroon, and eastern Nigeria. Their best-known member is Mbum; other languages in the group include Tupuri and Kare.

They were labeled "G6" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.

Languages

In addition, Pondo, Gonge, Tale, Laka, Pam, and To are unclassified within Mbum. To is a secret male initiation language of the Gbaya. Dek is purported in some sources but apparently unattested.

Footnotes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbumic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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