Mfumte language

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Mfumte
Region Cameroon
Ethnicity Mfumte
Native speakers
 unknown (30,000 cited 1982–2000)[1]
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
nfu – Mfumte
fum – Fum
kdz – Kwaja
ncp – Ndaktup (Ncha, Bitwi)

Mfumte (Nfumte) is a Grassfields language of Cameroon. It is not clear if the four varieties spoken by ethnic Mfumte—Ndaktup, Kwaja, Fum, and Mfumte proper—are mutually intelligible or distinct languages; ability to community may be either due to inherent intelligibility or to bilingualism, while Fum and Mfumte may simply be the Nigerian and Cameroonian names for the same language.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mfumte reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
    Fum reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
    Kwaja reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
    Ndaktup (Ncha, Bitwi) reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)


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