Kugama, also known as Wam (''Wã̀m''
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Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria
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Adamawa language
The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in Central Africa, in northern Cameroon, north-western Central African Republic, southern Chad, and eastern Nigeria, spoken altogether by on ...
of
Nigeria
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. It is spoken in
Mayo-Belwa and
Fufore Local Government Areas of
Adamawa State
Adamawa is a States of Nigeria, state in the North East (Nigeria), North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Borno State, Borno to the northwest, Gombe State, Gombe to the west, and Taraba State, Taraba to the southwest while its eas ...
.
It is classified within the
Yendang group of the Adamawa language family.
Speakers refer to their language as ''ɲáː wàm''. ''Kugama'' is an exonym that is often used by the speakers themselves when speaking in other languages, while ''Wã̀m'' is the name they use to refer to themselves.
[Litvinova, Lora]
Wam
AdaGram, LLACAN.
Further reading
*Blench, Roger. 2009
The Maya (Yendang) languages
*Litvinova, Lora. 2014
Притяжательные местоимения в языке кугама ossessive pronouns in Kugama In Alexandr Ju. Zheltov (ed.), Антропология и лингвистика. Материалы петербургских экспедиций в Африку
nthropology and Linguistics. Materials of St. Petersburg expeditions to Africa 167–173. St. Petersburg: MAE RAN.
*Litvinova, Lora. 2015. Личные местоимения в языке кугама
ersonal pronouns in Kugama Paper presented at 28th International Conference on historiography and source studies of Asia and Africa “Asia and Africa in the Changing World”. St. Petersburg.
*Litvinova, Lora. 2016
Элементы морфосинтаксиса языка кугама opics in Kugama morphosyntax St. Petersburg: St.Petersburg State University MA thesis.
References
External links
Wam by Lora Litvinova. AdaGram.
{{Adamawa languages
Languages of Nigeria
Mumuye–Yendang languages