Kpasam (Kpasham; Nyesam) is an
Adamawa language of
Demsa
Demsa is a Local Government Area of Adamawa State, Nigeria with headquarters located in Demsa. Demsa lies on the Benue River.
History
Demsa Local Government Area is one of the twenty one LGAs in Adamawa State and has the postal code of 642.
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LGA,
Adamawa State
Adamawa state () is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Borno to the northwest, Gombe to the west, and Taraba to the southwest, while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon. It tak ...
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Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, NaìjÃrÃyà , yo, Nà ìjÃrÃà , pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
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The speakers refer to their language as Nyesam
²Ã© sà m their ethnic group as ''Isam''
sà m and their territory as ''Asam''
¡sà m The Nyesam language is spoken in the villages of Kpasham, Dakli, and Dem.
[Villa, Eveling]
Nyesam
AdaGram.
Further reading
*Blench, Roger. 2009
The Maya (Yendang) languages
*Villa, Eveling. 2019
Selected Nyesam documentation (with audio and video) Pangloss Collection: An archive for endangered languages.
*Yoder, Zachariah. 2009. Maya wordlists Kpasham (Adamawa), MPEG/X-WAV.
PARADISEC
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel- ...
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References
Languages of Nigeria
Mumuye–Yendang languages
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