Kulung language (Jarawan)

{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Nigeria}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Kulung

|nativename=Kúkùlúŋ

|states=Nigeria

|region=Taraba State

|speakers=40,000

|date=2012

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Volta-Congo

|fam4=Benue–Congo

|fam5=Bantoid

|fam6=Southern Bantoid

|fam7=Bantu

|fam8=Mbam-Bube-Jarawan

|fam9=Jarawan

|fam10=Nigerian Jarawan

|iso3=bbu

|glotto=kulu1255

|glottorefname=Kulung (Nigeria)

}}

{{Infobox ethnonym|person=|people=Bákùlúng|language=Kúkùlúŋ|root=Kùlúng{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}}}

Kulung is a Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

Kulung can also refer to an unrelated Chadic language of the same name spoken in Karim Lamido LGA of Taraba State and related to Piya.{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}

References

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;Bibliography

Adelberger, J. "A Comprehensive Ethnographic Overview of the Muri Mountains (Northern Nigeria)", Mandaras Publishing 2024, Ramsgate, Kent (UK) (e-publication: https://www.mandaras.info/Muri-Mountains.html)

  • Adelberger, J. & Kleinewillinghöfer, U., 2016 A Kulung Vocabulary compiled by the missionary Ira McBride" Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Working Papers of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) [https://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/files/2019/07/AP167.pdf 167].

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Category:Jarawan languages

Category:Languages of Nigeria

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