Kulung language (Jarawan)

Kulung
Kulung
Kúkùlúŋ
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State
Native speakers	40,000 (2012)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Bantu Mbam-Bube-Jarawan Jarawan Nigerian Jarawan Kulung; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bbu
Glottolog	kulu1255
ELP	Kulung (Nigeria)

Kulung is a Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

Kulung can also refer to an unrelated Chadic language of the same name spoken in Karim Lamido LGA of Taraba State and related to Piya.^[2]

References edit

^ Kulung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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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