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Menchum language

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Native to
  
ISO 639-3
  
bby

Native speakers
  
3,000 (2000)

Glottolog
  
befa1241

Language family
  
Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoBenue–CongoSouthern BantoidGrassfields?Momo–Tivoid?Menchum

Dialects
  
Modele–UshakuBangui–Befang–ObangOkoromandjang

Menchum, or Befang, is a divergent Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It may be a Grassfields language or closer to Tivoid.

Befang is the local town, and also the name of the Menchum dialect spoken there.

References

Menchum language Wikipedia


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