Jukun Takum language

For other languages called Jukun, see Jukun language.

Not to be confused with Wapan language or Djugun dialect.

Jukun (Njikun), or more precisely Jukun Takum, is a Jukunoid language of Cameroon used as a trade language in Nigeria. Though there are only a few thousand native speakers, and only a dozen in Nigeria (as of 2000), it is spoken as a second language in Nigeria by tens of thousands (40,000 reported in 1979).

Jukun
Jukun Takum
Njikun
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers	L1: 2,400 (2000)[1] L2: 40,000 (1979)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo languages Volta–Congo languages Benue–Congo Jukunoid Central Jukun languages Jukun
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jbu
Glottolog	juku1254

The name Jukun is a cover term for several related Jukunoid languages, such as the much more numerous Jukun Wapan.

Wase Tofa is listed by Blench (2019) as a dialect.^[2]

References

1. Jukun at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.