Geographic
distribution: southern Chad | Glottolog: kimb1240 | |
Linguistic classification: Niger–Congo
Atlantic–Congo
Savannas
Mbum–Day
Kim | ||
The Kim languages are a small group of the Mbum–Day languages of the provisional Savanna family, spoken in southern Chad. They are:
Kim (Garap, Gerep, Kolop, Kosop), Besme, Goundo.Goundo is nearly extinct, and Besme has only a thousand or so speakers.
The Kim languages were labeled "G14" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.
References
Kim languages Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA