Kwama language explained

Kwama
Also Known As:Gwama
States:Ethiopia
Region:Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Ethnicity:20,000 Kwama
Speakers:15,000
Date:2015
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Nilo-Saharan
Fam2:Komuz?
Fam3:Koman
Iso3:kmq
Glotto:kwam1249
Glottorefname:Gwama
Script:none

Kwama (also Afan Mao, Amam, Gogwama, Goma, Gwama, Koma of Asosa, Nokanoka, North Koma, T'wa Kwama, Takwama) is a Koman language, spoken in the South Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, along the Sudan border between Asosa and Gidami.

An early record of this language is a wordlist dated March 1882 by Juan Maria Schuver.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Wendy James, et al., Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1996), pp. 329-31