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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Africa > Côte d’Ivoire > Loma

Loma

A language of Côte d’Ivoire

ISO 639-3loi

Population  8,010 (2000).
Region  Tèèn and Kulango areas.
Alternate names   Lomakka, Lomapo, Lomasse, Malinke
Dialects  Similar to Tèèn [lor] and Kulango [kzc] but not inherently intelligible. More similar to Kulango than Tèèn is to Kulango.
Classification  Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, North, Gur, Teen
Language use  Also use Tèèn.
Comments  The people are called ‘Lomapo’. Different from Loma of Liberia.