Kim languages
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| Geographic distribution: | southern Chad |
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| Glottolog: | kimb1240[1] |
The Kim languages are a small group of the Mbum–Day languages of the provisional Savanna family, spoken in southern Chad. They are:
Goundo is nearly extinct, and Besme has only a thousand or so speakers.
The Kim languages were labeled "G14" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.
References
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kim–Besme–Goundo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.