Jimi language (Cameroon)
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| Jimi (Cameroon) | ||
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| Spoken in: | Cameroon | |
| Region: | Far North Province | |
| Total speakers: | 3,500 (1982) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu-Mandara A A.8 Jimi (Cameroon) |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | jim | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Jimi (also known as Djimi, Jimjimen, 'Um Falin) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province on the Nigerian border in and around Bourrha. Dialects are Djimi, Jimo, Malabu, Wadi, and Zumo. [1] ISO 639-3 refers to this Jimi as [Jimi (Cameroon)] to distinguish it from the West Chadic Jimi (Nigeria).
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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