Kim language

Kim
Native to	Chad
Native speakers	15,000 (1993 census)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Mbum–Day Kim languages Kim
Dialects	Garap Gerep Kolop Kosop
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`kia`
Glottolog	`kimm1246`^[2]

Kim of southern Chad is an Mbum language spoken by 15,000 people. It was once mistakenly classified as Chadic, and called Masa, a Chadic name.

There is strong dialectical divergence; Blench considers Garap (Éré), Gerep (Djouman, Jumam), Kolop (Kilop, Kolobo), and Kosop (Kwasap, Kim) to be distinct languages.^[3]

References

↑ Kim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kim". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Roger Blench, 2004. List of Adamawa languages (ms)

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