Lama language

Spoken in

• Niger - Congo Atlantic - Congo Volta - Congo north Gur centrally south Grusi east lama

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Nic ( other Niger - Congo languages ​​)

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Lama (also Lamba and Losso ) is the language of West African ethnic group Lama, who lives mainly in Togo, but is also common in Benin and Ghana. It has a relationship to temperature and Kabiye.

In Togo lived 1991 117.400 speakers in the prefectures Kande and Doufelgou ( Kara region). More than 50 percent of the Lama Speakers are distributed over central Togo in the prefectures Sotouboua, Ogou and Haho. A larger group of Lama - speakers to still live in Lome.

The 69,000 Lama Speaker ( 2001) in Benin live mainly in the provinces Atakora and in some villages of Boukombe. Also in the Dongo Province and in the subprefectures Djougou and Bassila live isolated Lama spokesman.

In Ghana, an estimated several hundred, maybe a few thousand speakers ( 1996), about 100 kilometers south of Bassar to Yendi and Tamale and even to the southeast.

Recognized dialects in Ghana Kadjala ( Kadjalla ), in Benin and Togo also Kande, ( edge ) and Defale.