Social:Bung language
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Short description: Endangered language of Cameroon
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (February 2026) |
| Bung | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Region | Adamawa Province |
| Extinct | 1970s[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bqd |
| Glottolog | bung1259[2] |
The Bung language is a moribund language of Cameroon spoken by three people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau.[3] It is remembered best by one speaker who learned the language at a young age, though it is not his mother tongue. A wordlist shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Mambiloid language Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the dominant language of the village where Bung's last speakers reside.[3] It also has words in common with other Mambiloid languages such as Tep, Somyev and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan).[3] For lack of data, it is not definitively classified.
References
- ↑ "Bung". Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bqd. "Last speaker probably died in the 1970s."
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Bung". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bung1259.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bruce Connell, 1997: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland
External links
- The Endangered Languages Project: Bung
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