Kemezung language

Kemezung
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Northwest Province, Donga-Mantung Division, Southwest corner of Ako Subdivision, Northwest of Nkambé, town of Dumbu and village of Kwei.
Native speakers	3,540 (2008)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Eastern Beboid Kemezung; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dmo
Glottolog	keme1240[2]

Kemezung (Dumbo, Dumbu, Dzumbo, Kumaju) is a Southern Bantoid (Eastern Beboid) language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Bebe.^[1]

Notes

1 2 Kemezung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kemezung". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Cox, Bruce. 2005. Notes on the Phonology of Kemezung. ms. Yaoundé: SIL
Brye, Edward and Elizabeth Brye. 2004. "Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-011: 18 p. http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-011
Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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