Tuki
| Tuki | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Cameroon | |
| speaker | 26,000 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bag |
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The Tuki (also called bacenga , baki , batchenga , betsinga , betzinga , ki , oki , osa nanga or sanaga ; the ISO code is bag ) is the language of the Betsinga people.
It is a bantoid language that has only 26,000 speakers and is spoken along the Sanaga River and north of Sanage between Ombessa and Ntui in Cameroon .
Tuki belongs to the subgroup of the Sanaga within the Mbam languages and has numerous dialects: kombe (tukombe, wakombe, bakombe), tocenga (tiki, bacenga), tsinga (chinga, tutsingo, batsingo), bundum, tonjo (bunju, boudjou), ngoro (tu ngoro, uki, aki) and mbere (tumbele, mbele, bambele, mvele, bamvele).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bag
- ↑ (1982 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue