Lamang language

Lamang
Lamang
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Borno, Adamawa
Native speakers	(40,000 cited 1993)
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

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

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Native speakers

(40,000 cited 1993)^[1]

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	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

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