Kpasam language

Kpasam (Kpasham; Nyesam) is an Adamawa language of Demsa LGA, Adamawa State, Nigeria.

The speakers refer to their language as Nyesam [ɲé sàm], their ethnic group as Isam [ísàm], and their territory as Asam [ásàm]. The Nyesam language is spoken in the villages of Kpasham, Dakli, and Dem.

Further reading

• Blench, Roger. 2009. The Maya (Yendang) languages.
• Villa, Eveling. 2019. Selected Nyesam documentation (with audio and video) . Pangloss Collection: An archive for endangered languages.
• Yoder, Zachariah. 2009. Maya wordlists Kpasham (Adamawa), MPEG/X-WAV. PARADISEC.

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