The Shümom language is an
artificial language
Artificial languages are languages of a typically very limited size which emerge either in computer simulations between artificial agents, robot interactions or controlled psychological experiments with humans. They are different from both constr ...
created by
Sultan Ibrahim Njoya. It was developed as a secret language for the use of palace officials, employing a random mix of words from French, English, and German. Each word was assigned a new meaning to create a secret code.
Shümom can be written in the
Bamum or Shüpamom script.
References
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Further reading
"Provisional notes on cataloging in the A-ka-u-ku (Bamum) script, in the Shümom and Bamum languages , Yale University Library" ''web.library.yale.edu''.
Constructed languages
Languages attested from the 19th century
Languages of Cameroon
Cant languages