Kamwe language

Kamwe (Kamue)
Kamwe (Kamue)
Native to	Nigeria and Cameroon
Region	Adamawa State and Borno State
Native speakers	(300,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Kamwe Higi (A.3) Kamwe (Kamue); ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Psikyɛ (Tsepkye);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hig – inclusive code; Individual code:; kvj – Psikye
Glottolog	kamw1239 Kamwe; psik1239 Psikye

Kamwe (or Kamue) is a Chadic language. It is spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon. It is the most widely spoken Biu–Mandara language with around 950,000 speakers.[2]

References

Kamwe (Kamue) at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
Psikye at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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[e21-1] Kamwe (Kamue) at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
Psikye at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

[BlenchAtlas4-2] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.