Menchum language

Menchum
	Befang
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	3,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Grassfields?; Momo–Tivoid? Menchum; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Modele–Ushaku; Bangui–Befang–Obang; Okoromandjang;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bby
Glottolog	befa1241[2]

Menchum, or Befang, is a divergent Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It may be a Grassfields language or closer to Tivoid.

Befang is the local town and also the name of the Menchum dialect spoken there.

References

Menchum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Befang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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