Koonzime
| Koonzime | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 30,000 | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Koonzime (also Djimu, Dzimou, Kooncimo, Koozhime, Koozime, Nzime and Zimu) is a Bantu language and is spoken by around 30,000 people in Cameroon (2000 census).
It is common among the Ndzimu people in the Haut-Nyong district in Est Province . Many members of the Baka people use it as a second language .
About 2000 people can read Koonzime and about 50 people can write the language. It is taught in elementary schools and there are radio programs in Koonzime.
It is written in the Latin script .
classification
Koonzime is a northwest Bantu language and belongs to the Makaa-Njem group , which is classified as the Guthrie Zone A80.
It has the dialects Nzime (also Koonzime) and Badwe'e (also Badjoue, Bajwe'e and Koozime).