Kung is a member of the Central Ring Grassfields branch of the Southern Bantoid language family. It is spoken by about 600 people in Zhoa in the Fungom subdivion in the south of the Menchum Department in the northwest of the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
Kung can be written with the Latin alphabet. Kung is classified as a moribund language as only older adults speak it.
Download an alphabet chart for Kung (Excel)
Details of the Kung alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Source: Aspects of Kung Grammar
Information about Kung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_language_(Cameroon)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_(langue)
http://www.language-archives.org/language/kfl
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kung1260
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/Tatang-2016-Kung.pdf
Abon, Bafanji, Bebe, Bekwarra, Daka, Ipulo, Isu, Jagham, Jarawa, Kemezung, Kenyang, Ki, Koshin, Kung, Mambila, Mbe, Mbuʼ, Medumba, Metaʼ, Pinyin, Tiv, Yambeta
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 17.03.26. Last modified: 18.03.26
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