Nzime language

Nzime
Koonzime, Koozime
Native to Cameroon
Ethnicity Nzime, Dwe'e
Native speakers
40,000  (2011)[1]
Niger–Congo
Dialects
Koonzime
Bajue (Badwee)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ozm
Glottolog koon1245[2]
A.841,842[3]

Nzime (Koonzime) is a Bantu language of Cameroon, spoken by the Nzime and Dwe'e (Bajwe'e) people. Maho (2009) lists these as two languages.

References

  1. Nzime at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Koonzime". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online