Shama language

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

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

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

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.