Hijuk language

Hijuk
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	400 (1992)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu (Zone A) Bafia (A.50)? Basaa (A.40)? Hijuk
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hij
Glottolog	hiju1238[2]
Guthrie code	A.501[3]

Hijuk is a minor Bantu language of Cameroon. Guthrie had left it unclassified within the Bafia languages (A.50), but according to Ethnologue 16, it has only 45% lexical similarity with Bafia, and 84% with Basaa.

References

1. Hijuk at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Hijuk". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online