Dikaka language

Dikaka
Cham
Dijim-Bwilim
Native toGombe State of Nigeria
EthnicityDijim people
Native speakers
(25,000 cited 1998)[1]
Early forms
Dikaka
  • Dijim
Dialects
  • Dijim (Cham, Cam)
  • Bwilim (Mwana, Mona)
Latin (Dijim alphabets)
Language codes
ISO 639-3cfa
Glottologdiji1241

Dikaka or Cham, is one of the Savanna languages of Middle Belt, Nigeria. It is also known as Dijim–Bwilim, after its two dialects, Dijim and Bwilim. A tonal language, it has a whistled register. It is spoken in Gombe and southwestern parts of Adamawa State of Nigeria.

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