Nawdm language
| 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] |
Nawdm is a Gur language of Togo. An unknown number of speakers live in Ghana.
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 umlaut is used on the first letters of the sequence of two consonants, for example : the sequence of consonants (g̈w, g̈b, n̈y, ŋ̈m).
References
- ↑ Nawdm at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Nawdm". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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