Kumam dialect

Kumam
Ikokolemu
Native toUganda
RegionTeso District
EthnicityKumam people
Native speakers
270,000 (2014 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3kdi
Glottologkuma1275

Kumam is a language of the Southern Lwoo group[3] spoken by the Kumam people of Uganda. It is estimated that the Kumam dialect has 82 percent lexical similarity with the Acholi dialect, 81 percent with the Lango dialect.[4]

  1. ^ Kumam at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (2023-07-10). "Glottolog 4.8 - Southern Lwoo". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7398962. Archived from the original on 2023-11-21. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
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  4. ^ "Kumam". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2020-09-28.