Where Sama Mum is spoken
Sama Mum is spoken in 2 countries: Cameroon and Nigeria.
On the map, Sama Mum is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Sama Mum.
How many people speak Sama Mum?
Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.
Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.
Where Sama Mum sits in the language family tree
Glottolog classifies Sama Mum as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.
- Atlantic-Congo
- Volta-Congo
- Benue-Congo
- Bantoid
- Northern Bantoid
- Dakoid
- Taram-Dirim-Nnakenyare
- Sama Mum
More about Sama Mum
Codes: ISO 639-3 ccg, Glottolog samb1311. Glottolog macroarea: Africa.
Questions about Sama Mum
Where is Sama Mum spoken?
Sama Mum is spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.
Which language family is Sama Mum in?
Glottolog places Sama Mum in the Atlantic-Congo family, in the branch Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Northern Bantoid, Dakoid and Taram-Dirim-Nnakenyare.