Jukun Takum language
| Jukun | |
|---|---|
| Jukun Takum | |
| Njikun | |
| Native to | Cameroon, Nigeria |
Native speakers | (L1: 2,400 cited 2000)[1] L2: 40,000 (1979)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jbu |
| Glottolog | juku1254 |
Jukun (Njikun) or more precisely Jukun Takum, is a Jukunoid language[2] 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.
Wase Tofa is listed by Blench (2019) as a dialect.[3]
References
- ^ a b Jukun at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jukun Takum". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.