Kemezung language

Kemezung
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Northwest Province, Donga-Mantung Division, Southwest corner of Ako Subdivision, Northwest of Nkambé, town of Dumbu and village of Kwei.
Native speakers	4,500 (2001)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Southern Bantoid Eastern Beboid Kemezung
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dmo

Kemezung (Dumbo, Dumbu, Dzumbo, Kumaju) is a Bantoid (Eastern Beboid) language of Cameroon. According to Ethnologue, it's 85% lexically similar to Bebe.

References

• Cox, Bruce. 2005. Notes on the Phonology of Kemezung. ms. Yaoundé: SIL
• Brye, Edward and Elizabeth Brye. 2004. "Intelligibility testing survey of Bebe and Kemezung and synthesis of sociolinguistic research of the Eastern Beboid cluster." SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2004-011: 18 p. http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2004-011
• Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.

External links

• Map of Kemezung language from the LL-Map project
• Information on Kemezung language from the MultiTree project
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World (unknown ed.). SIL International.
• Rosettaproject.org

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