Menchum language

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Menchum
Befang
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
 3,000  (2000)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Southern Bantoid
        • Grassfields?
          Momo–Tivoid?
          • Menchum
Dialects
Modele–Ushaku
Bangui–Befang–Obang
Okoromandjang
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bby

Menchum, or Befang, is a divergent Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It may be a Grassfields language or closer to Tivoid.

Befang is the local town, and also the name of the Menchum dialect spoken there.

References

  1. ↑ Menchum reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)


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