Njem language
Njem (Njyem) is a Bantu language of Congo and Cameroon. Speakers are mostly (85%) monolingual, and many Baka Pygmies speak Njema as a second language.
Njem | |
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Njyem | |
Native to | Cameroon, Republic of Congo |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 3,500 in Congo)[1] 4,400 in Cameroon (2005)[2] |
Niger–Congo
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ISO 639-3 | njy |
Glottolog | njye1238 [3] |
A.84 [4] |
References
- Njem at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Njem language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Njyem". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
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Note: The Guthrie classification is geographic and its groupings do not imply a relationship between the languages within them. |
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