Cuvok language

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Cuvok
Native toCameroon
RegionFar North Province
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1983)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3cuv
Glottologcuvo1236

Cuvok (French: Tchouvok) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.[1]

Cuvok is spoken by about 5,000 speakers (ALCAM 1983) in and around , near (Mokolo commune, Mayo-Tsanaga department), Far North Region. Cuvok is about as closely related to Mefele (especially the Muhura dialect) as North Mofu is to South Mofu.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Cuvok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ^ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Volume 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069. |volume= has extra text (help)


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