Tikar language

Tikar
Native to Cameroon
Ethnicity Tikar, Bedzan
Native speakers
 110,000 (2005)[1]
Dialects
  • Ndobo
  • Bedzan (Medzan)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tik
Glottolog tika1246[2]

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.

Blench (2011) states that the little evidence available suggests that it is most closely related to the Mambiloid and Dakoid languages.[3]

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.

References

  1. ↑ Tikar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tikar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. p. 16.


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