Com (language)

Kom (Itaŋikom)
Spoken in	Cameroon ( Northwest Province )
speaker	170,000
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Benue – Congo Bantoid languages South bantoid languages Grasslands ring center Com (language)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bkm

The Kom language (own name Itaŋikom ) is a bantoid language spoken by the Kom ethnic group in Cameroon . Kom is a tonal language with three tones.

Demarcation

There is also a language in India called Kom . It belongs to the northern group within the Mizo-Kuki-Chin languages and, according to the Indian census of 2001, has only about 15,000 speakers. The sources and links below do not relate to this Indian language.

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• Schultz, George, 1997a, Kom Language Grammar Sketch Part 1, SIL Cameroon
• Schultz, George, 1997b, Notes on Discourse features of Kom Narrative Texts, SIL Cameroon
• Jones, Randy, compiler. 2001. Provisional Kom - English lexcion. Yaoundé, Cameroon: SIL

Web links

• Map of Kom language from the LL-Map project
• Information on Com language from the MultiTree project
• Kom - English dictionary
• Ethnologue report for Kom
• SIL report for Kom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schultz 1997a and Schutz 1997b (available online) contain a comprehensive description of the language's grammar.
2. ↑ Langdiverse ( Memento of the original dated February 11, 2007 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.