Kim | |
Region: | southern Chad |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Savannas |
Fam5: | Mbum–Day |
Glotto: | kimb1240 |
Glottorefname: | Kim–Besme–Goundo |
The Kim languages are a small group of the Mbum–Day languages of the provisional Savanna family, spoken in southern Chad. There are three languages:
Kim (Garap, Gerep, Kolop, Kosop), Besme, Goundo.Goundo is nearly extinct, and Besme has only a thousand or so speakers.
The Kim languages were labeled "G14" in Joseph Greenberg's Adamawa language-family proposal.