Kung (Kuŋ)

Kung is a member of the Central Ring Grassfields branch of the Southern Bantoid language family. It is spoken by about 600 people in Zhoa in the Fungom subdivion in the south of the Menchum Department in the northwest of the Northwest Region of Cameroon.

Kung can be written with the Latin alphabet. Kung is classified as a moribund language as only older adults speak it.

Kung alphabet and pronunciation

Download an alphabet chart for Kung (Excel)
Details of the Kung alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)

Notes

Consonants are labialised when following by w and palatalised when followed by y

Sample sentences

Myə̌ sù mə̀sə́ ndí-sə̄ sə̀-kə̀m
I have washed the clothes completely
Ghò nèy sɨ́ kōl brʉ́sê
You can tie the goats
Mvɨ́sə́ nə̀ nyínú ndɛ́
Fowls will enter the house (soon)
Nè wûŋ fwà’ nə́ ndɛ̄
My mother works in the house

Source: Aspects of Kung Grammar

Links

Information about Kung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_language_(Cameroon)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_(langue)
http://www.language-archives.org/language/kfl
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kung1260
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/Tatang-2016-Kung.pdf

Bantoid languages

Abon, Bafanji, Bebe, Bekwarra, Daka, Ipulo, Isu, Jagham, Jarawa, Kemezung, Kenyang, Ki, Koshin, Kung, Mambila, Mbe, Mbuʼ, Medumba, Metaʼ, Mundabli-Mufu, Mundani, Mungbam, Naki, Ndoola, Ngwo, Noni, Nizaa, Pinyin, Saari, Tiv, Vute, Weh, Yambeta

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 17.03.26. Last modified: 18.03.26

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