Kamwe language

Kamwe (Kamue)
Native toNigeria and Cameroon
RegionAdamawa State and Borno State
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 1992)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Psikyɛ (Tsepkye)
Language codes
ISO 639-3hig – inclusive code
Individual code:
kvj – Psikye
Glottologkamw1239  Kamwe
psik1239  Psikye

Kamwe (or Kamue) is a Chadic language. It is spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon. It is the most widely spoken Biu–Mandara language with around 950,000 speakers.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kamwe (Kamue) at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
    Psikye at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
  2. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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