Kom language

Kom language

language
name=Kom
nativename=unicode|Itaŋikom
familycolor=Niger-Congo
states=Cameroon
region=North-West Province
speakers=170,000
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Bantoid
fam6=Southern
fam7=Wide Grassfields
fam8=Narrow Grassfields
fam9=Ring
fam10=Center
iso2=bnt|iso3=bkm

The Kom language (native Name: Itaŋikom) is the language spoken by the Kom people of Cameroon. Schultz 1997a and Schutz 1997b (available online) contain a comprehensive description of the language's grammar.

Kom is a tonal language, with three tones. [http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/articles/langdiverse.html]

References

* [http://www.sil.org/africa/cameroun/bydomain/linguistics/manuscripts/Kom%20-%20Grammar.pdf Schultz, George, 1997a, Kom Language Grammar Sketch Part 1, SIL Cameroon]
* [http://www.sil.org/africa/cameroun/bydomain/linguistics/manuscripts/Kom%20Primdisc.pdf Schultz, George, 1997b, Notes on Discourse features of Kom Narrative Texts, SIL Cameroon]
* [http://www.sil.org/africa/cameroun/bydomain/linguistics/lexicons/Kom%20Lexicon.pdf Jones, Randy, compiler. 2001. Provisional Kom - English lexcion. Yaoundé, Cameroon: SIL]

External links

* [http://www.sil.org/africa/cameroun/bydomain/linguistics/dictionaries/kom/index.html Kom - English dictionary]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bkm Ethnologue report for Kom]
* [http://www.sil.org/africa/cameroun/bylanguage/languages/kom.html SIL report for Kom]
* [http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/articles/langdiverse.html Article about Kom language]


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