Jukun Takum language explained

Jukun
Also Known As:Jukun Takum
Nativename:Njikun
States:Cameroon, Nigeria
Speakers:L1
Date:2000
Ref:e26
Speakers2:L2

(1979)

Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo languages
Fam3:Volta–Congo languages
Fam4:Benue–Congo
Fam5:Jukunoid
Fam6:Central
Fam7:Jukun languages
Iso3:jbu
Glotto:juku1254
Glottorefname:Jukun Takum

Jukun (Njikun), or more precisely Jukun Takum, is a Jukunoid language of Cameroon used as a trade language in Nigeria. Though there are only a few thousand native speakers, and only a dozen in Nigeria (as of 2000), it is spoken as a second language in Nigeria by tens of thousands (40,000 reported in 1979).

The name Jukun is a cover term for several related Jukunoid languages, such as the much more numerous Jukun Wapan.

Wase Tofa is listed by Blench (2019) as a dialect.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Blench, Roger. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages. Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 2019. 4th. Cambridge.