Mfumte language

Mfumte (Nfumte) is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon. It is not clear if the four varieties spoken by ethnic Mfumte—Ndaktup, Kwaja, Fum and Mfumte proper—are mutually intelligible or distinct languages; ability to communicate may be either due to inherent intelligibility or to bilingualism, while Fum and Mfumte may simply be the Nigerian and Cameroonian names for the same language.

Not to be confused with mbembe language.
Mfumte
RegionCameroon
EthnicityMfumte
Native speakers
(24,700 Mfumte dialect cited 1982)[1]
6,000 Kwaja and Ndaktup (2000), unknown number Fum
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
nfu – Mfumte
fum – Fum
kdz – Kwaja (East Mfumte)
Glottologmfum1239  Mfumteic[2]
fumm1238  Fum[3]

Orthography

The mfumte alphabet has 40 letters, with 30 consonants and 10 vowels.[4]

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References
  1. Mfumte at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Fum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kwaja (East Mfumte) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mfumteic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Fum". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Julius A. Eyoh; Robert Hedinger (June 2008). "Mfumte Orthography Guide" (PDF). silcam.org. Retrieved March 15, 2018.


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