Nyingwom language

Not to be confused with Kam language.
Kam
Nyingwom
Region eastern Nigeria
Native speakers
5,000 (1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kdx
Glottolog kamm1249[2]

The Kam language, or Nyingwom (Nyiwom, Yimwom), is one of the Savanna languages spoken in eastern Nigeria.

It was labeled as branch "G8" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal, and is now thought to be closest to the Waja languages.

References

  1. Kam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kam". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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