| Kumam | |
|---|---|
| Ikokolemu | |
| Native to | Uganda |
| Region | Teso District |
| Ethnicity | Kumam people |
Native speakers | 270,000 (2014 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kdi |
| Glottolog | kuma1275 |
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]
- ^ Kumam at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ 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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