Atsam

Atsam (Cawai)
Spoken in	Nigeria ( Kaduna State )
speaker	30,000 (1972)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Benue – Congo Kainji East Kainji Piti-atsam; ; ; ; Atsam ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cch

The Atsam language (cawai, cawe, cawi, chawai, chawe, chawi; ISO 639-3: cch) is a platoid language from the group of Kainji languages spoken by a total of 30,000 people in the Nigerian state of Kaduna .

Together with the homogeneous language Piti [pcn], the Atsam forms the subgroup Piti-Atsam.

The language uses the Latin script for writing.

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