Kim languages

Kim
Geographic distribution:	southern Chad
Linguistic classification:	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Savannas Mbum–Day Kim

Glottolog:	`kimb1240`^[1]

The Kim languages are a small group of the Mbum–Day languages of the provisional Savanna family, spoken in southern Chad. They are:

Kim (Garap, Gerep, Kolop, Kosop), Besme, Goundo.

Goundo is nearly extinct, and Besme has only a thousand or so speakers.

The Kim languages were labeled "G14" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kim–Besme–Goundo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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