Landoma
| Landoma | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Guinea | |
| speaker | 14,400 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
ldm |
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The Landoma language (ISO 639-3: ldm; also cocoli, landouman, landuma, tiapi, tyapi and tyopi) is a West Atlantic language spoken by about 14,400 people between the upper rivers of the Rio Nunez and Rio Pongas in Guinea .
It is one of the seven Baga languages of the Temne languages within the Niger-Congo language family .
The language is closely related to the Baga binari [bcg] and the Temnian language [tem]. The standard dialect is called Tiapi (tapessi).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ldm
- ↑ (Vanderaa 1991)
- ↑ Ethnologue (16th)