Kenden

Kenden
Spoken in	Cameroon
speaker	1,500 (2001)
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Benue – Congo Bantoid languages South bantoid languages Mamfe Kenden
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kvm

The Kendem language (ISO 639-3: kvm; also called bokwa-kendem ) is spoken by a total of over 1500 people in the area of ​​the city of Mamfe , in the localities of Kendem, Kekpoti and Bokwa in the region of southwest Cameroon .

The Kendem language belongs to the southern bantoid language group of the Mamfe languages within the Niger-Congo language family . The people in the localities where the language is spoken call themselves Myugundem, while the Kendem speakers from the locality of Kekpoti also call their language Kekpoti.

Web links

• Ethnologue
• The Kendes language

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kvm
2. ↑ (2001 SIL)
3. ↑ Ethnologue
4. ↑ Heidi Anderson & Susanne Krüger (PDF; 2.4 MB)