Nen
Tunen
Native toCameroon
Ethnicity40,000 (1987 census) to 100,000+ (1997) including those outside the traditional area[1]
Dialects
  • Tunen
  • Aling'a
Language codes
ISO 639-3tvu
Glottologtune1261
A.44,441[2]

The Nen language, Tunen (Banen), is a Bantu language of Cameroon. Maho (2009) considers Aling'a to be a distinct language. Unlike all other Bantu languages, Nen has an SOV word order rather than the standard Bantu SVO word order.

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