Bung language
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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>Bruce Connell, 1997: Moribund Languages of the Nigeria-Cameroon Borderland Template:Webarchive</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 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, Somyev and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan).<ref name=connell/> For lack of data, it is not definitively classified.
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- The Endangered Languages Project: Bung