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Shama language

Shama, or Shama-Sambuga after its two dialects, is a Kainji language of Nigeria.

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Shama
Tushama
Native toNigeria
RegionNiger State
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1995)1
Dialects
  • Sama
  • Sambuga
Language codes
ISO 639-3sqa
Glottologsham1278
Shama
PersonBushama
PeopleUshama
LanguageTushama

Shama, or Shama-Sambuga after its two dialects, is a Kainji2 language of Nigeria.

Sambuga is presumably extinct. It was spoken in Sambuga town, 10 km northwest of Kagara, in Rafi LGA, Niger State.3

References

References

  1. Shama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Shama-Sambuga". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.