Dikaka | |
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Cham | |
Dijim-Bwilim | |
Native to | Gombe State of Nigeria |
Ethnicity | Dijim people |
Native speakers | (25,000 cited 1998) [1] |
Early forms | Dikaka
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Dialects |
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Latin (Dijim alphabets) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
cfa |
Glottolog |
diji1241 |
Dikaka or Cham, is one of the Savanna languages of Middle Belt, Nigeria. It is also known as Dijim–Bwilim, after its two dialects, Dijim and Bwilim. A tonal language, it has a whistled register. It is spoken in Gombe and southwestern parts of Adamawa State of Nigeria.
The two dialects are Dijim and Bwilim. [2]
Another related dialect is spoken by former speakers of the Jalaa language in and around Loojaa settlement.
It consists of 8 vowels and 17 consonants.