Koma language

Koma
Region northern Cameroon and into Nigeria
Native speakers
 (41,000 cited 1982–1989)[1]
Dialects
  • Gomnome
  • Gomme
  • Ndera
  • Gimme
  • Gimnime
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
kmy – Koma Ndera, Gomme
kmp – Gɨmme
gmn – Gɨmnɨme
Glottolog koma1268  (Koma Atlantika)[2]
koma1266  (Koma Ndera)[3]

The Koma language is a member of the Duru branch of Savanna languages of Cameroon. Blench (2004) includes three varieties separated in Ethnologue, Koma Ndera, Gɨmne, and Gɨmnɨme; within Koma Ndera, speakers of the marginal dialects, Gomnome and Ndera, can scarcely understand one another, though both understand the central dialect, Gomme.[1]

References

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


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