Lagwan

Facts

  • Language: Lagwan
  • Alternate names: Logone, Lagwan Kotoko, Kotoko-Logone, Logone-Birni Kotoko, Lagwane, Lagouane
  • Language code: kot
  • Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, Biu-Mandara, B, B.1, Kotoko Proper, South (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 10,000
  • Vulnerability: Vulnerable
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    The term Mandage is used by the Kotoko to refer to either the northern group of Kotoko languages (Mpade, Afade, Maslam, Malgbe) or the Kotoko group as a whole (including Mser and Lagwan). Muslim.

    Lagwan is spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Africa.