Chumburung language
| Chumburung | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ghana |
| Region | Kpandai District and Yeji |
Native speakers | 69,000 (2004)[1] |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Dialects |
Yeji
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ncu |
| Glottolog |
chum1261[2] |
Chumburung (Kyongborong, Nchimburu, Nchummuru) is a Guang language spoken by 69,000 persons, mostly Chumburu by tribe and living in the Kingdom of Chumburung at both sides of the southwestern leg of Lake Volta in Ghana.
3,000 of these speak the Yeji (Yedji) dialect, which is quite divergent: no closer to Chumburung proper than Kplang or Krache are.
A large number of publications describing the language can be found at: http://www.language-archives.org/language/ncu . References to the tribe and the traditional area are rare, but here is one: http://www.northernghanapeoples.co.uk/ ; click down left on CHUMBURUNG.
References
- ↑ Chumburung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Chumburung". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.