Kutin language
Kutin | |
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Peere | |
Region | Cameroon |
Native speakers |
15,000 in Cameroon (1993)[1] and a few in Nigeria |
Niger–Congo
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
pfe |
Glottolog |
peer1241 [2] |
Kutin is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages. Most Nigerian speakers moved to Cameroon when the Gashaka-Gumti National Park was established.
Blench (2004) considers the three varieties, Peere, Potopo (Kotopo), and Patapori, to be separate languages.
References
- ↑ Kutin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Peere". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)
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