Landoma language
Landoma | |
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Native to | Guinea |
Native speakers | (14,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ldm |
Glottolog | land1256 |
ELP | Landoma |
Landoma also called Landouman, Landuma, or Cocoli, is a language of western Guinea. It is the most populous of the Baga languages, in the Mel branch of the Niger–Congo language family. It is related to Temne of Sierra Leone.
The language sometimes goes by the name of one of its dialects, Tiapi, Tyapi, Tyopi a.k.a. Tapessi.
References
- ^ Landoma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)