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]