Menchum language

Menchum
Befang
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	3,000 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields? Momo–Tivoid? Menchum
Dialects	Modele–Ushaku Bangui–Befang–Obang Okoromandjang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bby`
Glottolog	`befa1241`^[2]

Menchum, or Befang, is a divergent Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It may be a Grassfields language or closer to Tivoid.

Befang is the local town, and also the name of the Menchum dialect spoken there.

References

↑ Menchum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Befang". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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