Fam language

Fam
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1984)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Fam; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	fam
Glottolog	famm1241[2]
	Fam shown within Nigeria

Fam is a Bantoid language of Nigeria. It is now usually left as unclassified within Benue–Congo, however Blench (2011) classifies it as a divergent Mambiloid language potentially related to Ndoola.^[3]

References

↑ Fam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Fam". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. p. 15.

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