Lagwan language

Lagwan language

language
name=Lagwan
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Cameroon, Chad
region=Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad
speakers=10,000
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=Biu-Mandara
fam4=B
fam5=B.1
fam6=Kotoko
iso3=kot

Lagwan is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects include Logone-Birni and Logone-Gana. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=kot Ethnologue entry for Lagwan]
* Johannes Lukas. 1936. "Die Logone-Sprache im Zentralen Sudan". Leipzig: DMG.


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