Bung language

Endangered language of Cameroon

Bung
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Adamawa Province
Native speakers	(3 rememberers cited 1995; repeated 2007)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo? Mambiloid? Bung
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bqd`
Glottolog	`bung1259`
ELP	Bung

The Bung language is a nearly extinct, endangered language of Cameroon spoken by three people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau.^[1] It is remembered best by one speaker who learned the language at a young age, though it is not his mother tongue. A wordlist shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Mambiloid language Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the dominant language of the village where Bung's last speakers reside.^[1] It also has words in common with other Mambiloid languages such as Tep, Somyev and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan).^[1] For lack of data, it is not definitively classified.