Chumburung (language)
| Chumburung | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana | |
| speaker | 69,000 (2003) | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Chumburung is the Ghanaian language of the Chumburung and is used by 69,000 (2004 SIL) speakers (including 2,700 Yeji speakers).
Chumburung has its distribution between the Volta reservoir in the south and the Daka river in the north-west. Yeji is spoken south of the Volta Reservoir.
Alternative names are Nchumburung, Nchimburu, Nchummuru, and Kyongborong. Dialects are North Chumburung (Banda), South Chumburung (Lonto, Gurubi, Chinderi, Bejamse, Borae), Yeji (Yedji).
Chumburung has 66% similarities with Yeji, 79% with Kplang , 78% with Krache , 69% with Dwang (language) , 67% with Nawuri and Gikyode and 60% with Gonja .