Landoma language
Appearance
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 (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) AKA aka Tapessi.
References
- ^ Landoma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)