Nawdm language

Nawdm is a Gur language of Togo. An unknown number of speakers live in Ghana.

Nawdm
Losso
Native toTogo
EthnicityLosso people
Native speakers
150,000 in Togo (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nmz
Glottolognawd1238[2]

The term Losso is a vague local designation, never employed by linguists, referring to both the Nawdm and Lamba people.

Writing System

Nawdm alphabet
abdeɛ fggwgbh ɦijkkw kplmnny ŋŋmoɔr stuvw y

To distinguish a sequence of two consonants and a consonant represented by two letters, the diaeresis is used on the first letters of the sequence of two consonants, for example: the sequence of consonants (g̈w, g̈b, n̈y, ŋ̈m).

gollark: i.e. local network ones.
gollark: Oh, and if you plan to have "intranet" sites.
gollark: ... logins.
gollark: Well, if you plan to implement some cookie-type mechanism, there are challenges in securing websites *from each other*.
gollark: Browsers also present large security challenges if you do some stuff, though. Do you know about the same origin policy and stuff?

References

  1. Nawdm at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nawdm". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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