Mfumte language
| Mfumte | |
|---|---|
| Region | Cameroon |
| Ethnicity | Mfumte |
Native speakers |
(25,000 Mfumte dialect cited 1982)[1] 6,000 Kwaja and Ndaktup (2000), unknown number Fum |
| 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
- ↑ 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) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mfumteic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Fum". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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