Hijuk language

Hijuk
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
<15 (2018)
Language codes
ISO 639-3hij
Glottologhiju1238
A.501
ELPHijuk

Hijuk is a nearly extinct Bantu language of Cameroon. Guthrie had left it unclassified within the Bafia languages (A.50), but according to Ethnologue, it has only 31% lexical similarity with Bafia, and 87% with Basaa.

References

  1. 1 2 Hijuk at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online