Kugama
Native toNigeria
RegionAdamawa state
Native speakers
(5,000 Kugama cited 1995)[1]
unclear if figure for Gengle is additional or duplicate
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
kow – Kugama
geg – Gengle (duplicate code)
Glottologkuga1239
Wã̀m
Languageɲáː wàm

Kugama, also known as Wam (Wã̀m[2]) or Gengle,[3] is an Adamawa language of Nigeria. It is spoken in Mayo-Belwa and Fufore Local Government Areas of Adamawa State.[4][5] It is classified within the Yendang group of the Adamawa language family.[4]

Speakers refer to their language as ɲáː wàm. Kugama is an exonym that is often used by the speakers themselves when speaking in other languages, while Wã̀m is the name they use to refer to themselves.[6]

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Kugama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Gengle (duplicate code) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Idiatov, Dmitry, Mark Van de Velde, Tope Olagunju and Bitrus Andrew. 2017. Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria. 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) (Leiden, Netherlands).
  3. ^ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  4. ^ a b "Kugama". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  5. ^ "Gengle". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  6. ^ Litvinova, Lora. Wam. AdaGram, LLACAN.

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Languages of Nigeria
Adamawa languages
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