| Jukun | |
|---|---|
| Jukun Takum Njikum |
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| Spoken in | Cameroon |
| Native speakers | 2,500 (2000) 40,000 2ary speakers (1979) |
| Language family |
Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jbu |
Jukun (Njikum), 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).
The name Jukun is a cover term for several related Jukunoid languages, such as the much-more-numerous Jukun Wapan.