Kugama language

Kugama, also known as Wam (Wã̀m^[2]) or Gengle,^[3] is an Adamawa language of Nigeria. It is spoken in Mayo-Belwa and Fufore Local Government Areas of Adamawa State.^[4][5] It is classified within the Yendang group of the Adamawa language family.^[4]

Kugama
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Adamawa state
Native speakers	(5,000 Kugama cited 1995)[1] unclear if figure for Gengle is additional or duplicate
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Leko–Nimbari Mumuye–Yendang Yendang Kugama
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: kow – Kugama geg – Gengle (duplicate code)
Glottolog	kuga1239

Wã̀m
Language	ɲáː wàm

Speakers refer to their language as ɲáː wàm. Kugama is an exonym that is often used by the speakers themselves when speaking in other languages, while Wã̀m is the name they use to refer to themselves.^[6]

Further reading

• Blench, Roger. 2009. The Maya (Yendang) languages.
• Litvinova, Lora. 2014. Притяжательные местоимения в языке кугама [Possessive pronouns in Kugama]. In Alexandr Ju. Zheltov (ed.), Антропология и лингвистика. Материалы петербургских экспедиций в Африку [Anthropology and Linguistics. Materials of St. Petersburg expeditions to Africa], 167–173. St. Petersburg: MAE RAN.
• Litvinova, Lora. 2015. Личные местоимения в языке кугама [Personal pronouns in Kugama]. Paper presented at 28th International Conference on historiography and source studies of Asia and Africa “Asia and Africa in the Changing World”. St. Petersburg.
• Litvinova, Lora. 2016. Элементы морфосинтаксиса языка кугама [Topics in Kugama morphosyntax]. St. Petersburg: St.Petersburg State University MA thesis.