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Tikar language information


Tikar
Native toCameroon
EthnicityTikar, Bedzan
Native speakers
110,000 (2005)[1]
Language family
Niger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Northern Bantoid
            • Tikar
Dialects
  • Ndobo
  • Bedzan (Medzan)
Language codes
ISO 639-3tik
Glottologtika1246

Tikar (also called Tigé, Tigré or Tikari) is a Northern Bantoid, semi-Bantu language that is spoken in Cameroon by the Tikar people, as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies, who speak their own dialect of the language.[2] A recent hypothesis by Roger Blench suggests that the Tikar language could be a divergent language in the Niger-Congo language family with an uncertain origin.[2]

  1. ^ Tikar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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