Aghem is a member of the Eastern Grassfields branch of the Southern Bantoid language family. It is spoken by about 27,000 people mainly in the town of Wum in the Wum Central Subdivision of the Menchum Division of the North West Region of Cameroon. There are also some Aghem speakers in other parts of Cameroon, particularly in cities such as Bamenda, Douala, and Yaoundé.
Aghem is also known as Wum or Yum. The people who speak Aghem call themselves Wum, and their language is believed to be named after an ancestral leader. Aghem is closely related to languages such as Bamileke, Kom and Oku. It is writen with the Latin alphabet, and is taught and used as a language of instructino in schools in Wum.
Download an Aghem alphabet chart (Excel)
Details of the Aghem alphabet (PDF) provided by Wolfram Siegel
Information about Aghem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghem_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghem_(langue)
https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/aghem/
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/aghe1239
https://language-archives.org/language/agq
https://101lasttribes.com/tribes/aghem.html
Aghem,Ambele,Awing,Baba,Babanki,Bambalang,Bamukumbit,Bamum,Bamunka,Bangolan,Feʼfeʼ,Fut,Ghomalaʼ,Kenswei Nsei,Kom,Kwaʼ,Limbum,Mfumte,Mmen,Ndemli,Ngaʼka,Ngiemboon,Ngomba,Ngombale,Nso,Oku,Vengo,Yamba,Yemba
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 06.01.26. Last modified: 06.01.26
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