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Chumburung language

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Native to
  
Dialects
  
Native speakers
  
69,000 (2004)

ISO 639-3
  
ncu

Region
  
Language family
  
Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoKwaPotou–TanoTanoGuangNorthChumburung

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


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