| Jukun | |
|---|---|
| Jukun Takum | |
| Njikun | |
| Native to | Cameroon,Nigeria |
Native speakers | (L1: 2,400 cited 2000)[1] L2: 40,000 (1979)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jbu |
| Glottolog | juku1254 |
Jukun (Njikun), or more preciselyJukun Takum, is aJukunoid language ofCameroon used as atrade language inNigeria. 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 nameJukun is a cover term for several related Jukunoid languages, such as the much more numerousJukun Wapan.
Wase Tofa is listed by Blench (2019) as a dialect.[2]
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