Jimi language (Cameroon)

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Jimi (Cameroon)
Spoken in: Cameroon 
Region: Far North Province
Total speakers: 3,500 (1982)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  Biu-Mandara
   A
    A.8
     Jimi (Cameroon)
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: jim

Jimi (also known as Djimi, Jimjimen, 'Um Falin) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province on the Nigerian border in and around Bourrha. Dialects are Djimi, Jimo, Malabu, Wadi, and Zumo. [1] ISO 639-3 refers to this Jimi as [Jimi (Cameroon)] to distinguish it from the West Chadic Jimi (Nigeria).

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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