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Kwama
Gwama
Native toEthiopia
RegionBenishangul-Gumuz Region
Ethnicity20,000 Kwama[1]
Native speakers
15,000 (2015)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Komuz?
    • Koman
      • Kwama
Writing system
none
Language codes
ISO 639-3kmq
Glottologkwam1249
ELPKwama

Kwama (also Afan Mao, Amam, Gogwama, Goma, Gwama, Koma of Asosa, Nokanoka, North Koma, T'wa Kwama, Takwama) is a Koman language, spoken in the South Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, along the Sudan border between Asosa and Gidami.

An early record of this language is a wordlist dated March 1882 by Juan Maria Schuver.[2]

  1. ^ a b Kwama at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Wendy James, et al., Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1996), pp. 329-31

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