Chumburung language
Chumburung (Kyongborong, Nchimburu, Nchummuru) is a Guang language spoken by 69,000 persons, mostly Chumburu by tribe and living in the Kingdom of Chumburung at both sides of the southwestern leg of Lake Volta in Ghana.
| Chumburung | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ghana |
| Region | Kpandai District and Yeji |
Native speakers | 69,000 (2004)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ncu |
| Glottolog | chum1261[2] |
3,000 of these speak the Yeji (Yedji) dialect, which is quite divergent: no closer to Chumburung proper than Kplang or Krache are.
References
- Chumburung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chumburung". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
- Field research on the Chumburung language at SIL International
- Songs in Chumburung
- New Testament in Chumburung
- Publications describing the language
- http://www.northernghanapeoples.co.uk/
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