Nawdm language
Nawdm is a Gur language of Togo. An unknown number of speakers live in Ghana.
| Nawdm | |
|---|---|
| Losso | |
| Native to | Togo |
| Ethnicity | Losso people |
Native speakers | 150,000 in Togo (2012)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nmz |
| Glottolog | nawd1238[2] |
The term Losso is a vague local designation, never employed by linguists, referring to both the Nawdm and Lamba people.
Writing System
| a | b | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gw | gb | h | ɦ | i | j | k | kw | kp | l | m | n | ny | ŋ | ŋm | o | ɔ | r | s | t | u | v | w | 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: <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675> <@202992030685724675>
gollark: And you don't have anything worthy of my attention.
gollark: People can mute your pings or just leave.
gollark: It does not get attention.
gollark: How do you plan to provide O2 self-sustainingly?
References
- Nawdm at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- 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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