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Menchum

Spoken in

Cameroon
speaker 2,980 (2000)
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

bby

The language Befang (also menchum , bifang, beba-befang, biba-bifang; ISO 639-3: bby) is one of the languages ​​of Cameroon and is used as a bantoid grassland language by a total of 3,000 people from the Menchum ethnic group in the Cameroon region Northwest spoken.

The Menchum has different dialects: modele (beekuru, iku, aku, usheida, modelle, modeli, idele, ambabiko), ushaku (mukuru, mokuru), befang (ge, beba-befang, bifang, abefang), bangui (bangwe, bangwi ), obang and okomanjang (okoromandjang).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Documentation for ISO 639 identifier: bby. In: sil.org. SIL International , accessed on August 9, 2017 .
  2. (2000 WCD)
  3. Ethnologue