Jukun Takum language

Jukun (Njikun), 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).

Jukun
Jukun Takum
Njikun
Native toCameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers
2,400 in Cameroon (2000)[1]
unknown number in Nigeria, but sufficient for significant L2 use[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jbu
Glottologjuku1254

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.[2]

References

  1. Jukun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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