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Lagwan
Logone
Native toCameroon, Chad
RegionFar North Province, Cameroon; west Chad
EthnicityKotoko people
Native speakers
10,000 in Cameroon (2004)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Chadic
    • Biu–Mandara
      • Kotoko (B.1)
        • South
          • Lagwan
Language codes
ISO 639-3kot
Glottologlagw1237
ELPLagwan

Lagwan (Logone) is a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects include Logone-Birni and Logone-Gana.

Lagwan is spoken in the northern part of Logone-Birni, from the banks of the Logone River to the Nigerian border (Logone-et-Chari Department, Far North Region). It is also spoken in Chad and Nigeria. It has 38,500 speakers in Cameroon.[2]

  1. ^ Lagwan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.

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