The Kim languages are a small group of the

Mbum–Day languages The Mbum–Day languages are a subgroup of the old Adamawa languages family (G6, G13, G14, & Day), provisionally now a branch of the Savanna languages. These languages are spoken in southern Chad, northwestern Central African Republic, northern Ca ...

of the provisional Savanna family, spoken in southern

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. There are three languages: :

Kim Kim or KIM may refer to: Names * Kim (given name) * Kim (surname) ** Kim (Korean surname) *** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties **** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948 ** Kim, Vietnamese ...

(Garap, Gerep, Kolop, Kosop),

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, 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.

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