Africa · ISO 639-3 bax · Glottocode bamu1253
Bamun
Bamun opens an Atlantic-Congo language for which CLDR records a distinct Bamum script and a Cameroonian reference point.
- Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Likely script
- Bamum (Bamu)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- CM
- Reference point
- 5.490, 10.848
Open research question
Which present-day functions, learning pathways and digital resources of the Bamum script can be established from specialist sources?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.