Jukpë

The Jukpë language (Jukpë: kìjúkpë [kìd͡ʒúk͡pə̥]) is the traditional language of the Jukpë people. It is spoken by around fifty thousand people in the north of Cameroon, eastern Nigeria, southern Chad and western Central African Republic. It is also by the Jukpë people, most notably in Britain, France and Cameroon.

Jukpë is an isolating language, has a simple syllable structure and lacks diphthongs. There are thirty-one consonants and six vowels; vowels have two tones, high (◌́) and low (◌̀). Word order is mainly SVO but occasionally SOV. Adpositions are prepositional and head direction is noun initial; that is that adjectives, numerals, demonstratives and genitives proceed the noun. Although Jukpë lacks grammatical gender there are six noun classes that do act as grammatical gender. There are also two numbers and Conjugations occur according to voice, mood, person, number, tense and aspect.