Fam language
Fam (Fám;[3] exonym: Kɔŋa) is a Bantoid language of Bali LGA in Taraba State, Nigeria. It is now usually left as unclassified within Benue–Congo, however Blench (2011) classifies it as a divergent Mambiloid language potentially related to Ndoola.[4]
| Fam | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Taraba State |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1984)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fam |
| Glottolog | famm1241 |
| ELP | Fam[2] |
 Fam shown within Nigeria | |
References
- Fam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Fam.
- Idiatov, Dmitry, Mark Van de Velde, Tope Olagunju and Bitrus Andrew. 2017. Results of the first AdaGram survey in Adamawa and Taraba States, Nigeria. 47th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) (Leiden, Netherlands).
- Blench, Roger (2011). "'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu" (PDF). Berlin: Humboldt University. p. 15.
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