Jimi language (Cameroon)

Jimi language (Cameroon)

language
name=Jimi (Cameroon)
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Cameroon
region=Far North Province
speakers=3,500 (1982)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=Biu-Mandara
fam4=A
fam5=A.8
iso3=jim

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. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.] ISO 639-3 refers to this Jimi as [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=jim Jimi (Cameroon)] to distinguish it from the West Chadic Jimi (Nigeria).

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=jim Ethnologue entry for Jimi]


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