Chamba Leko
Chamba | |
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Samba Leekɔ | |
Region | northern Nigeria and Cameroon |
Ethnicity | Chamba people |
Native speakers | 62,000 in Nigeria (2000)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ndi |
Glottolog |
samb1305 [2] |
Chamba Leko is one of two languages spoken by the Chamba people, the other being Chamba Daka. It is a member of the Leko branch of Savanna languages, and is spoken across the northern Nigerian–Cameroonian border.
Chamba is also spelled 'Samba', Leko also 'Leeko', 'Lego' or 'Lekon'. The language is also known as Suntai.
References
- ↑ Chamba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Samba Leko". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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