Fam language

Fam
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State
Native speakers	unknown (1,000 cited 1984)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Fam
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`fam`
Glottolog	`famm1241`^[2]

Fam is a Bantoid language of Nigeria. It was once thought to be related to the Mambiloid languages.

References

↑ Fam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Fam". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.

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