Native to Cameroon, Nigeria Glottolog juku1254 | ISO 639-3 jbu | |
Native speakers 2,400 in Cameroon (2000)
unknown number in Nigeria, but sufficient for significant L2 use Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Jukunoid
Central
Jukun languages
Jukun | ||
Jukun (Njikum), 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.
References
Jukun Takum language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA