Peve language

Not to be confused with Lame language.
Pévé
Lamé
Zime
Native to Chad, Cameroon
Native speakers
ca. 35,000 (1999–2000)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lme
Glottolog peve1243[2]

Pévé, also called Lamé after its chief dialect, is an Afro-Asiatic language of Chad and Cameroon. Zime is a generic name, and Lamé is also used for a dialect of the related Ngeté-Herdé language.

References

  1. Pévé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Peve". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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