Bung language explained

Bung
States:Cameroon
Region:Adamawa Province
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo?
Fam4:Mambiloid?
Speakers:3 rememberers
Date:1995; repeated 2007
Iso3:bqd
Glotto:bung1259
Glottorefname:Bung

The Bung language is a nearly extinct, endangered language of Cameroon spoken by three people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau.[1] It is remembered best by one speaker who learned the language at a young age, though it is not his mother tongue. A wordlist shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Mambiloid language Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the dominant language of the village where Bung's last speakers reside.[1] It also has words in common with other Mambiloid languages such as Tep, Somyev and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan).[1] For lack of data, it is not definitively classified.

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Notes and References

  1. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/connell/Mori/Moribundlngs.html Bruce Connell, 1997: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland