Native to Ghana Dialects Yeji | Native speakers 69,000 (2004) ISO 639-3 ncu | |
Region Kpandai District and Yeji Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Kwa
Potou–Tano
Tano
Guang
North
Chumburung | ||
Chumburung (Kyongborong, Nchimburu, Nchummuru) is a Guang language spoken by 69,000 persons, mostly Chumburu by tribe and living in the Kingdom of Chumburung at both sides of the southwestern leg of Lake Volta in Ghana.
3,000 of these speak the Yeji (Yedji) dialect, which is quite divergent: no closer to Chumburung proper than Kplang or Krache are.
A large number of publications describing the language can be found at: http://www.language-archives.org/language/ncu . References to the tribe and the traditional area are rare, but here is one: http://www.northernghanapeoples.co.uk/ ; click down left on CHUMBURUNG.
References
Chumburung language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA