Mbum
| Mbum | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Central African Republic , Cameroon | |
| speaker | 51,000 (1982) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
mdd |
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The Mbum is an Adamaua language of Cameroon spoken by over 51,000 people.
The speakers are mostly bilingual with French , some - especially older people - can use Fulfulde as a second language . The language is also known as Buna, Mboum, Mboumtiba, and Wuna.
The standard dialect of the language is the Gbete dialect .
Web links
- A rapid appraisal survey of Gbete by Jason Diller & Kari Jordan-Diller, 2002. SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-050.
- Map of Mbum language from the LL-Map project
- Information on Mbum language from the MultiTree project