The Bung language is a nearly extinct,
endangered language
An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead lang ...
of
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the ...
spoken by three people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the
Adamawa Plateau.
[Bruce Connell, 1997: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland]
It is remembered best by one speaker who learned the language at a young age, though it is not his mother tongue. A wordlist shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of
Mambiloid language Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the dominant language of the village where Bung's last speakers reside.
[ It also has words in common with other Mambiloid languages such as ]Tep Tep may refer to:
*Tep language
*Tepecano language (ISO 639:tep)
People
''Tep'' is a common Cambodian name.
*Tep Rindaro
*Tep Vanny
*Tep Vong
*Tep Boprek
*Tep Sothy
*Tep Ngorn
Other
*Tep Pranam temple
*Tep Wireless
*''Tep Songva'', film
*''Tep S ...
, Somyev and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan).[ For lack of data, it is not definitively classified.
]
References
External links
* The Endangered Languages Project
Bung
Niger–Congo languages
Languages of Cameroon
Unclassified languages of Africa
Endangered Niger–Congo languages
Endangered unclassified languages
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