Shama language

Shama
Native to Nigeria
Region Niger State
Native speakers
5,000 (1995)[1]
Dialects
  • Sama
  • Sambuga
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sqa
Glottolog sham1278[2]

Shama, or Shama-Sambuga after its two dialects, is a Kainji language of Nigeria.

References

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


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