Samia language

Samia
	Olusaamia
Native to	Uganda, Kenya
Region	Busia District
Native speakers	480,000 (2002 & 2009 censuses)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Masaba–Luhya (J.30) Samia; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Samia; Songa (?);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lsm
Glottolog	saam1283[2]
Guthrie code	JE.34,343[3]

Samia (Saamia) is a Bantu language spoken by the Luhya people of Uganda and Kenya. Ethnologue includes Songa as a dialect, but it may be a separate language.[4]

References

Samia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Saamia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
Maho (2009)

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[e18-1] Samia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Saamia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Guthrie-3] Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online

[4] Maho (2009)

Samia language

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