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Bung language

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Native to
  
Cameroon

Language family
  
unclassified

Glottolog
  
bung1259

Region
  
Adamawa Province

ISO 639-3
  
bqd

Native speakers
  
3 rememberers (1995; repeated 2007)

The Bung language is a nearly extinct, endangered language of Cameroon spoken by 3 people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau. It is remembered best by one speaker who learned the language at a young age, though it is not their 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. 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). For lack of data, it is not definitively classified.

References

Bung language Wikipedia