Menchum language

Menchum
Befang
Native to Cameroon
Native speakers
3,000 (2000)[1]
Dialects
  • Modele–Ushaku
  • Bangui–Befang–Obang
  • Okoromandjang
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bby
Glottolog befa1241[2]

Menchum, or Befang, is a divergent Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It may be a Grassfields language or closer to Tivoid.

Befang is the local town and also the name of the Menchum dialect spoken there.

References

  1. Menchum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Befang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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