Aghem
| Aghem | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 26,700 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
agq |
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The Aghem language (also called wum and yum ; ISO 639-3 is agq ) is a bantoid language spoken by 26,700 people in the north-western province of Cameroon .
It is one of the five western ring languages within the grassland group .
It is related to the languages Isu [isu] and Weh [weh]. There are minimal regional differences in the language. The speakers now mostly speak English or the Cameroonian Pidginenglisch [wes].
alphabet
The alphabet of the language that uses the Latin script has a total of 35 letters:
tk kp? bdg gb mn nj N Nm gF sz bv ts tS dz dZ ljwi I e E a a_) O o U uf
literature
- Hyman, LM 1979. Part I: Phonology and noun structure. In LM Hyman (ed.), Aghem grammatical structure. Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics No. June 7, 1979.