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Koma language

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Region
  
northern Cameroon and into Nigeria

Native speakers
  
(41,000 cited 1982–1989)

Language family
  
Niger–CongoAtlantic–CongoLeko–NimbariDuruVere–DowayoKoma

Dialects
  
GomnomeGommeNderaGimmeGimnime

ISO 639-3
  
Variously:kmy – Koma Ndera, Gommekmp – Gɨmmegmn – Gɨmnɨme

Glottolog
  
koma1268  (Koma Atlantika)koma1266  (Koma Ndera)

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.

References

Koma language Wikipedia


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