Kim (Chad)
| Kim | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Chad | |
| speaker | 15,400 (1993 census) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
kia |
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The Kim language is spoken by 15,000 people in southern Chad and is an Mbum language .
It has certain similarities in vocabulary with the Chadian languages , which, however, belong to a completely different family of languages - the Afro-Asian languages . There are major differences between the dialects. The individual dialects Garap (Éré), Gerep (Dschuman, Jumam), Kolop (Kilop, Kolobo) and Kosop (Kwasap, Kim) could also be defined as independent languages.
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- Ethnologue under the language code kia