Kulung language (Jarawan)

Kulung is one of the Southern Bantoid Jarawan languages of Nigeria.

Not to be confused with Kulung language (Nepal), Kulung language (Chad), or Kulung language (Chadic).

Kulung
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State
Native speakers	40,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Bantu? (Zone A) Mbam Jarawan Nigerian Jarawan Kulung
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bbu
Glottolog	kulu1255[2]

Kùlúng[3]
People	Bákùlúng
Language	Kúkùlúŋ

Kulung, related to Piya, can also refer to a Chadic language of the same name in Karim Lamido LGA, Taraba State, Nigeria.[3]

References

Notes

1. Kulung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kulung (Nigeria)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

Bibliography

• Adelberger, J. & Kleinewillinghöfer, U., 2016 A Kulung Vocabulary compiled by the missionary Ira McBride" Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) 167.