Bung language
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The Bung language is a nearly extinct language of Cameroon spoken by 3 people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau. A wordlist collected for it shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the village's dominant language. It also has words in common with Tep, Somyev, and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan.) For lack of data, it is not definitively classified.
See also: Jalaa.
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Bibliography
- Connell, B. (1995). "Dying Languages and the Complexity of the Mambiloid Group". Paper presented at the 25th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden.
