Nyingwom
| Kam (Nyingwom) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
eastern Nigeria | |
| speaker | 5,000 (1993) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
kdx |
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The Kam language , or Nyingwom (also Nyiwom or Yimwom ), is one of the savannah languages spoken in eastern Nigeria .
It belongs to the language group of the Adamaua languages within Adamawa-Ubangi languages . Within this, in turn, it is related to the Waja languages.
Individual evidence
- ↑ It was labeled as branch "G8" in Joseph Greenberg 's Adamawa languages language-family proposal, and is now thought to be closest to the Waja languages.