Tikar language

Tikar
Spoken in	Cameroon
Ethnicity	Tikar, Bedzan
Native speakers	25,000  (1989)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Tikar
Dialects	Ndobo Bedzan (Medzan)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tik

Tikar is a Bantoid language of uncertain classification spoken in Cameroon by the Bankim, Ngambe, and related Tikar peoples, as well as by the Bedzan Pygmies. Blench (2011) states that the little evidence available suggests that it is most closely related to the Mambiloid and Dakoid languages.

Variants of the name are Tikali, Tikar-East, Tikari, Tingkala.

A Bandobo variety (Ndobo, Ndob, Ndome) may be a separate language. Less divergent dialects are Twumwu (Tumu) in Bankim, Tige in Ngambe, Nditam, Kong, Mankim, Gambai, and Bedzan.

References

• Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.

External links

• Map of Tikar language from the LL-Map project
• Information on Tikar language from the MultiTree project