Com (language)
Kom (Itaŋikom) | ||
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Spoken in |
Cameroon ( Northwest Province ) | |
speaker | 170,000 | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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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
- ↑ Schultz 1997a and Schutz 1997b (available online) contain a comprehensive description of the language's grammar.
- ↑ 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.