Lamang language

Lamang (Laamang) is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster of Nigeria. Blench (2006) classifies the Woga variety as a separate language.^[2]

Lamang
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Borno, Adamawa
Native speakers	(40,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Wandala (A.4) West Lamang
Dialects	Dzuba Hedkala Ghudavan Ghumbagha Luhuva Gwoza–Wakane Waga (Waha)
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hia
Glottolog	lama1288

Phonology

Consonants^[3]

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal/Velar	Labio-Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n	ŋ	ŋʷ
Pre-nasal Plosive	mb		nd	ŋg	ŋgʷ
Plosive	p b		t d	k g	kʷ gʷ	ʔ
Implosive	ɓ		ɗ
Affricate			ts dz
Fricative	f v	θ ð	s z	x ɣ	xʷ ɣʷ
Approximant			l	j	w

Vowels^[3]

The vowels are /a/, /e/, /i/, and /u/.

Varieties

Blench (2019) lists these language varieties as are part of the Lamang cluster.^[4]

• Zaladva (Zәlәdvә) (Lamang North)
• Ghumbagha (Lamang Central)
• Ghudavan (Lamang South)