Shama language

Shama, or Shama-Sambuga after its two dialects, is a Kainji language of Nigeria.

Shama
Tushama
Native toNigeria
RegionNiger State
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1995)[1]
Dialects
  • Sama
  • Sambuga
Language codes
ISO 639-3sqa
Glottologsham1278[2]
Shama
PersonBushama
PeopleUshama
LanguageTushama

Sambuga is presumably extinct. It was spoken in Sambuga town, 10 km northwest of Kagara, in Rafi LGA, Niger State.[3]

References

  1. Shama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Shama-Sambuga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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