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Kuk is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.

Kuk
Native to	Cameroon
Native speakers	(3,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Ring Center Kuk
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kfn
Glottolog	kukk1239
ELP	Kuk

Proposed Kumfutu language

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some people from the village of Kumfutu (traditionally an ethnic Kuk village) were discontent with Kuk leadership and founded the Kumfutu Student Association as a result. The peopole of Kumfutu wanted to become independent from the Kuk, and thus proposed a new "Kumfutu" language. However, by 2010, the people of Kumfutu were no longer in conflict with the Kuk leadership.[2]

Gloss	Kumfutu	Kuk
fufu	kə́bál/kə́bán/kə́bánə́	kə́bá
corn beer	zə̀-kə́n-dzɔ̄ŋ	káŋ
raffia wine	ndzéí-sə̀ fə́bə́-sə́ (white urine)	lə̀-m fə̀bə̂-m (white wine)
book	kə̀màʼlə̀	kə́ŋwàlə̀
mother	nôː	nə̂ː
child	wéí	wāī
market	bə́kə́wɛ́í	bə́kə́wə́n
let's go	á nwô	á ŋwô
you (in greetings)	gha (plural)	wu (singular)
sleep (in greetings)	bilə	bei

The case of Kumfutu serves as an example of how language change in Africa often closely linked to the need for ethnic differentation.

References

На других языках

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- [en] Kuk language

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[fr] Kuk (langue)

Le kuk est une langue bantoïde des Grassfields du groupe Ring parlée dans le Nord-Ouest du Cameroun, dans le département du Menchum, l'arrondissement de Fungom (Zhoa), sur la Ring Road et entre Weh et Bafmeng, particulièrement dans six villages : Kuk proprement dit, Kumfutu, Achaf, Nzela, Echuapo et Ebo[1].

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