Mfumte language

Mfumte
Region Cameroon
Ethnicity Mfumte
Native speakers
 (25,000 Mfumte dialect cited 1982)[1]
6,000 Kwaja and Ndaktup (2000), unknown number Fum
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
nfu – Mfumte
fum – Fum
kdz – Kwaja
ncp – Ndaktup (Ncha, Bitwi)
Glottolog mfum1239  Mfumteic[2]
fumm1238  Fum[3]

Mfumte (Nfumte) is a Grassfields Bantu 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.

References

  1. ↑ Mfumte at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Fum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kwaja at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ndaktup (Ncha, Bitwi) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mfumteic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Fum". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.