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Landoma language

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Landoma
Native toGuinea
Native speakers
(14,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ldm
Glottologland1256
ELPLandoma

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

  1. ^ Landoma at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)