Kulung language (Jarawan)

Kulung is one of the Southern Bantoid Jarawan languages of Nigeria.


Kulung
Native toNigeria
RegionTaraba State
Native speakers
40,000 (2012)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3bbu
Glottologkulu1255[2]
Kùlúng[3]
PeopleBákùlúng
LanguageKúkùlúŋ

Kulung, related to Piya, can also refer to a Chadic language of the same name in Karim Lamido LGA, Taraba State, Nigeria.[3]

References

Notes
  1. Kulung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kulung (Nigeria)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
Bibliography
  • Adelberger, J. & Kleinewillinghöfer, U., 2016 A Kulung Vocabulary compiled by the missionary Ira McBride" Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) 167.


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