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{{Short description|Endangered language of Cameroon}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Bung
| states           = [[Cameroon]]
| region           = [[Adamawa Province]]
| familycolor      = Niger-Congo
| fam2             = [[Atlantic–Congo]]
| fam3             = [[Benue–Congo]]?
| fam4             = [[Mambiloid]]?
| speakers         = 3 [[rememberer]]s
| date             = 1995, 2007
| ref              = <ref name="connell" />
| iso3             = bqd
| glotto           = bung1259
| glottorefname    = 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]].<ref name=connell>[http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/connell/Mori/Moribundlngs.html Bruce Connell, 1997: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040814144719/http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/connell/Mori/Moribundlngs.html |date=2004-08-14 }}</ref> 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 languages|Mambiloid language]] [[Kwanja language|Kwanja]], although that may simply be because this has become the dominant language of the village where Bung's last speakers reside.<ref name=connell/> It also has words in common with other Mambiloid languages such as [[Tep language|Tep]], [[Somyev language|Somyev]] and [[Vute language|Vute]], while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly [[Adamawa languages|Adamawan]]).<ref name=connell/> For lack of data, it is [[unclassified language|not definitively classified]].

==References==
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==External links==
* The Endangered Languages Project: [http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/535 Bung]

{{Languages of Cameroon}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bung Language}}
[[Category:Niger–Congo languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Cameroon]]
[[Category:Unclassified languages of Africa]]
[[Category:Endangered Niger–Congo languages]]
[[Category:Endangered unclassified languages]]


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