Nyingwom language

Kam
Nyingwom
Region	eastern Nigeria
Native speakers	5,000 (1993)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Savanna greater Gur Waja–Kam Kam
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kdx`
Glottolog	`kamm1249`^[2]

The Kam language, or Nyingwom (Nyiwom, Yimwom), is one of the Savanna languages spoken in eastern Nigeria.

It was labeled as branch "G8" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal, and is now thought to be closest to the Waja languages.

References

↑ Kam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.