Landoma language

Landoma
Native to	Guinea
Native speakers	unknown (14,000 cited 1991)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Mel Temne Baga Landoma
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ldm`
Glottolog	`land1256`^[2]

Landoma (Landouman, Landuma), or Cocoli, is a language of western Guinea. It is the most populous of the Baga languages, in the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family. It is related to Temne of Sierra Leone.

The language sometimes goes by the name of one of its dialects, Tiapi (Tyapi, Tyopi) AKA aka Tapessi.

References

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

Languages of Guinea

Official language	French

National languages	Fula Malinké Susu Kissi Kpelle Toma

Indigenous languages	Badyara Baga Bambara Bassari Dan Dyula Landoma Limba Maninka Mano Pular Sua Wamey Yalunka Zialo

Atlantic languages

Bak languages

Jola	Bayot Fonyi Banjaal Gusilay. Ejamat Kasa Kuwaataay Karon Mlomp

Other	Balanta Bayot Bijago Mandjak Mankanya Papel

Senegambian

Fula–Tenda	Basari Bedik Bapeng Biafada Fula Konyagi Lehar Ndut Noon Pajade Palor Safen Serer

Others	Baga Pokur Banyum Kasanga Kobiana Mbulungish Nalu Wolof

Mel languages

Others

Limba
Gola

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