Akum
| Akum | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Spoken in |
Cameroon , Nigeria | |
| speaker | 7,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
|
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
acu |
|
The Akum language (also anyar and okum ; ISO 639-3 is aku ) is a jukunoid language spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria .
It is a platoid language from the Yukuben-Kuteb subgroup of the Benue-Congo language group within the Niger-Congo language family .
The Akum is spoken in Cameroon on the Nigerian border as well as in the neighboring areas of Nigeria. It has about 1,400 speakers in Cameroon in the Northwest Province . The people who speak this language are the Anyar .
The language is considered an endangered language, as the speakers mostly switch to speaking English or French, the official languages of Nigeria and Cameroon.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ acu
- ↑ (2002 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue