Chumburung language

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Chumburung (Kyongborong, Nchimburu, Nchummuru) is a Guang or Guan language spoken by 69,000 persons, mostly Chumburu by tribe and living in the Kingdom of Chumburung at both sides of the southwestern leg of Lake Volta in Ghana.

Chumburung
Native toGhana
RegionKpandai District and Yeji
Native speakers
69,000 (2004)[1]
Dialects
  • Yeji
Language codes
ISO 639-3ncu
Glottologchum1261

3,000 of these speak the Yeji (Yedji) dialect, which is quite divergent: no closer to Chumburung proper than Kplang or Krache are.

References

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  1. ^ Chumburung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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