Region Cameroon | Ethnicity Mfumte | |
Native speakers (25,000 Mfumte dialect cited 1982)
6,000 Kwaja and Ndaktup (2000), unknown number Fum Language family Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Benue–Congo
Southern Bantoid
Grassfields
Eastern
Nkambe
Mfumte ISO 639-3 Variously:
nfu – Mfumte
fum – Fum
kdz – Kwaja
ncp – Ndaktup (Ncha, Bitwi) Glottolog mfum1239 (Mfumteic)
fumm1238 (Fum) | ||
Mfumte (Nfumte) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. It is not clear if the four varieties spoken by ethnic Mfumte—Ndaktup, Kwaja, Fum, and Mfumte proper—are mutually intelligible or distinct languages; ability to community may be either due to inherent intelligibility or to bilingualism, while Fum and Mfumte may simply be the Nigerian and Cameroonian names for the same language.
References
Mfumte language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA