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Kwami language

LC control no.sh 96012120
LC classificationPL8426.3
Topical headingKwami language
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Variant(s)Kwaami language
Kwam language
Kwamanchi language
Kwom language
See alsoBole-Tangale languages
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Nigeria--Languages
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Found inWork 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)
Not found inRuhlen world lang.; Fivaz, D. Afr. langs, 1977; Mann, M. Thesaurus Afr. langs, 1977