Nyong language

Nyong
Mumbake
Native to Nigeria, Cameroon
Region Adamawa State
Native speakers
30,000 in Cameroon  (2008 census)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 muo
Glottolog nyon1241[2]

Nyong (Daganyonga) is a Leko language spoken in two well-separated enclaves in Cameroon and Nigeria. Cameroonian speakers consider themselves to be ethnically Chamba.

References

  1. Nyong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nyong". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.