Koma language

"Koma"
Regionnorthern Cameroon and into Nigeria
Native speakers
(41,000 cited 1982–1989)
Dialects
  • Gomnome
  • Gomme
  • Ndera
  • Gimme
  • Gimnime
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
kmy  Koma Ndera, Gomme
kmp  Gɨmme
gmn  Gɨmnɨme
Glottologkoma1268  Koma Alantika
koma1266  Koma Ndera

The Koma language is a language cluster belonging to the Duru branch of Savannas languages of Cameroon. Blench (2004) includes three varieties separated in Ethnologue, Koma Ndera, Gɨmne, and Gɨmnɨme; within Koma Ndera, speakers of the marginal dialects, Gomnome and Ndera, can scarcely understand one another, though both understand the central dialect, Gomme.