Kim languages
The Kim languages are a small group of the Mbum–Day languages of the provisional Savanna family, spoken in southern Chad. There are there languages:
| Kim | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | southern Chad |
| Linguistic classification | Niger–Congo
|
| Glottolog | kimb1240[1] |
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.
See also
- Kim word lists (Wiktionary)
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kim–Besme–Goundo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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