Hijuk | |
States: | Cameroon |
Speakers: | <15 |
Date: | 2018 |
Ref: | e25 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Benue–Congo |
Fam4: | Bantoid |
Fam5: | Bantu (Zone A) |
Fam6: | Bafia (A.50)? Basaa (A.40)? |
Iso3: | hij |
Glotto: | hiju1238 |
Glottorefname: | Hijuk |
Guthrie: | A.501 |
Hijuk is a nearly extinct Bantu language of Cameroon. Guthrie had left it unclassified within the Bafia languages (A.50), but according to Ethnologue, it has only 31% lexical similarity with Bafia, and 87% with Basaa.