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Name: Kom
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Nkom; Bikom; Bamekon; Itangikom; Kong
Spoken in: Cameroon
Number of speakers: 233,000 (2005), increasing. 30% monolingual. Ethnic population: 232,600 (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 170000 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: bkm
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup: Center Ring Narrow Grassfields; Central Ring (crnb)
Child Dialect: Mbizenaku; Mbesa; Itangimbesa (bkm-mbi)

Endangerment Status


Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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