Kwami language

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
שפת קוואמי
Name (Latin)
Kwami language
Name (Arabic)
لغة كوامي
Other forms of name
Kwaami language
Kwam language
Kwamanchi language
Kwom language
See Also From tracing topical name
Bole-Tangale languages
See Also From tracing place name
Nigeria
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q12952687
Library of congress: sh 96012120
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: 95195868: Leger, R. Eine Grammatik der Kwami-Sprache, 1994:t.p. (Kwami) p. 7ff (Kwami first listed in 1971 in Hoffmann's "Provisional Check List of Chadic Languages", and described as a West Chadic language of the Bole-Tangale Subgroup. In 1977, Newman classed Kwami as a dialect of Bole. Went-Lukas and Grimes listed the synonyms Kwom and Kwamanchi and classed as Afroasiatic, Chadic, West-Chadic, Bole-Tangale group, Southern.)
  • Ethnologue, 1992:p. 342, under Nigeria (Kwaami (Kwami, Kwam, Kwamanchi, Kwom) Bauchi State. Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West, A, A.2, Tangale, Tangale Proper. Survey needed)