Hijuk language

{{Short description|Nearly extinct Bantu language of Cameroon}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Hijuk

|nativename=

|region=

|states=Cameroon

|speakers=<15

|date=2018

|ref=e25

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Bantoid

|fam5=Bantu (Zone A)

|fam6=Bafia (A.50)?
Basaa (A.40)?

|iso3=hij

|glotto=hiju1238

|glottorefname=Hijuk

|guthrie=A.501

}}

Hijuk is a nearly extinct Bantu language of Cameroon. Guthrie had left it unclassified within the Bafia languages (A.50), but according to Ethnologue, it has only 31% lexical similarity with Bafia, and 87% with Basaa.

References

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{{Languages of Cameroon}}

{{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones A–B)}}

Category:Bafia languages

Category:Basaa languages

Category:Languages of Cameroon

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