Kpasam language
Kpasam (Kpasham; Nyesam) is an Adamawa language of Demsa LGA, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
| Kpasam | |
|---|---|
| Nyesam | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Adamawa state |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 3,000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pbn |
| Glottolog | kpas1242[2] |
| Sàm | |
|---|---|
| People | ísàm |
| Language | ɲé sàm |
| Country | ásàm |
The speakers refer to their language as Nyesam [ɲé sàm], their ethnic group as Isam [ísàm], and their territory as Asam [ásàm]. The Nyesam language is spoken in the villages of Kpasham, Dakli, and Dem.[3]
Further reading
- Blench, Roger. 2009. The Maya (Yendang) languages.
- Villa, Eveling. 2019. Selected Nyesam documentation (with audio and video). Pangloss Collection: An archive for endangered languages.
- Yoder, Zachariah. 2009. Maya wordlists Kpasham (Adamawa), MPEG/X-WAV. PARADISEC. doi:10.4225/72/57029413DB1F7
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References
- Kpasam at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kpasam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Villa, Eveling. Nyesam. AdaGram.
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