Tikar language
| Tikar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Cameroon |
| Ethnicity | Tikar, Bedzan |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2005)[1] |
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Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tik |
| Glottolog |
tika1246[2] |
Tikar is a Benue–Congo language of uncertain classification spoken in Cameroon by the Bankim, Ngambe, and related Tikar peoples, as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies. Blench (2011) states that the little evidence available suggests that it is most closely related to the Mambiloid and Dakoid languages.
Variants of the name are Tikali, Tikar-East, Tikari, Tingkala.
A Bandobo variety (Ndobo, Ndob, Ndome) may be a separate language. Less divergent dialects are Twumwu (Tumu) in Bankim, Tige in Ngambe, Nditam, Kong, Mankim, Gambai, and Bedzan.
References
- ↑ Tikar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tikar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
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