Kamara (language)
| Kamara | ||
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Spoken in |
Ghana | |
| speaker | 3,000 (2004) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | one of the national languages of Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
nic |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
The Kamara is an endangered Ghanaian language and is of only 3,000 (2003 GILLBT ) speakers in the village Larabanga , about 16 km west of Damongo , in the middle of the Northern region , near the Hanga used -Sprachgebietes. It is the mother tongue of the Kamara ethnic group .
Some sources also report other small villages about 24–32 km south of Bole .
Kamara differs significantly from the Hanga language. The Kamara and Hanga tribes are also culturally different. It is said to be more closely related to Dagbani than to Hanga.
See also
Web links
- Ethnologue.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to G. Hunt (1997)
- ↑ www.ethnologue.com ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
