Jukun_Takum_language

Jukun Takum language

Jukun Takum language

Jukunoid language of Cameroon and Nigeria

For other languages called Jukun, see Jukun language.
Not to be confused with Wapan language or Djugun dialect.

Jukun (Njikun), 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).

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The name Jukun is a cover term for several related Jukunoid languages, such as the much more numerous Jukun Wapan.

Wase Tofa is listed by Blench (2019) as a dialect.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Jukun at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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