Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 bom
Berom Language Cèn Bèrom
Berom is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Berom is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Berom language
Berom (Cèn Bèrom) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 462nd most spoken language in the world — just behind Mahasu Pahari (1.0 million) and ahead of Chuwabu (1.0 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Cara-Berom group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Berom spoken?
Berom is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Nigeria (1.0 million).
Berom is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Berom is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Swahili, Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Lingala, Zulu and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bom.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.