Tikar language
Tikar is a Benue–Congo language of uncertain classification spoken in Cameroon by the Bankim, Ngambe and related Tikar peoples as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies. Variants of the name are Tikali, Tikar-East, Tikari, Tingkala.
Tikar | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Tikar, Bedzan |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2005)[1] |
Niger–Congo
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tik |
Glottolog | tika1246 [2] |
Classification
Blench (2011) states that the little evidence available suggests that it is most closely related to the Mambiloid and Dakoid languages.[3]
Varieties
Tikar can be divided into three varieties, which are Tikari, Tige, and Tumu.[4]
A Bandobo variety (Ndobo, Ndob, Ndome) may be a separate language. Less divergent dialects are Twumwu (Tumu) in Bankim, Tige in Ngambé, Nditam, Kong, Mankim, Gambai and Bedzan.
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References
- Tikar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tikar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. p. 16.
- Stanley, Carol. 1991. Description morphosyntaxique de la langue Tikar (parlée au Cameroun). Ph.D. Sorbonne. SIL International.
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