Kugama ( eng. Kugama ) - the Adamawa -Ubangi people inhabiting the eastern part of Nigeria , the area south of the Benue River, east of the village of Apava and north of the village of Yada ( region of Adamawa ) [1] [2] [3] . Ethnic territory Kugama is surrounded by villages and cities of the Fulbe people. To the west of Kugam, its related peoples are settled: Mumuye , Yeandang , Waka , Subject , Kumba , Bali , Passes and Gengle [4] [5] .
| Kugama | |
|---|---|
| Abundance and area | |
| Total: about 5600 people. [one] | |
 Nigeria ( Adamawa ) | |
| Tongue | Kugama (Kugama-Gangle), Gangle , Kumba , Yeandang , Jib , Hausa [2] |
| Religion | traditional beliefs , Islam , Christianity |
| Related peoples | mumuye , jendang , waka , subject , kumba , bali , passam , gengle |
According to estimates presented on the website of the , the Kugam people number about 5,600 people [1] .
The kugama people speak the idiom of the adamawa -ubangian family of the niger-congolese macro family . According to some data, this idiom is an independent language - Kugama [6] [7] [8] . According to other data, this idiom, known as Kugama-Gangle, or Gogleg-Kugam, is a language common to the Kugam and Gangle peoples (“Kugama” and “Gngle” mean two equal versions of the name of the language and the names of two close to each other dialects ) [9] [10] . The number of speakers of Kugama, according to data published in the Ethnologue Language Reference Guide, is about 5,000 (1995). Representatives of the Kugama people in various areas of their settlement, in addition to their mother tongue, also speak the closely related Adamawa -Ubangi languages of the gengle , Kumba and Yendang , the Dzhukunoid language of the Djib and the Western Chad language of the Haus [2] .
Most of the Kugama people adhere to traditional beliefs (80%), some of them are Muslim (10%) and Christianity (10%) [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Kugama in Nigeria (English) . (2017). Archived October 26, 2017. (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ 1 2 3 Simons GF, Fennig CD: Kugama. A language of Nigeria (English) . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (20th Edition) . Dallas: SIL International (2017). Archived October 26, 2017. (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ Kugama // The Peoples of Africa: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary . - Greenwood Publishing Group , 1996. - P. 310. - 681 p. - ISBN 0313279187 .
- ↑ Popov V.A. Mumuye // Peoples and Religions of the World: Encyclopedia / Ch. editor V. A. Tishkov ; Edited: O. Yu. Artyomova , S. A. Arutyunov , A. N. Kozhanovsky , V. M. Makarevich (Deputy Ch. Ed.), V. A. Popov , P. I. Puchkov (Deputy Ch. . red.), G. Yu. Sitnyansky . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia , 1999. - p . 358-359 . - ISBN 5-85270-155-6 . Archived October 24, 2017. (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ Simons GF, Fennig CD: Nigeria, Map 5 (Eng.) . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (20th Edition) . Dallas: SIL International (2017). Archived January 17, 2017. (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ Adamava-Ubangian languages / Vinogradov V. А. // A - Questioning. - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2005. - P. 206. - (The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004–2017, t. 1). - ISBN 5-85270-329-X . (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ Blench R. The Adamawa Languages (English) (pdf) P. 1. Cambridge: Roger Blench Website. Publications (2004). Archived October 24, 2017. (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ Simons GF, Fennig CD: Niger-Congo. Atlantic-Congo. Volta-Congo. North. Adamawa-Ubangi. Adamawa (Eng.) . Ethnologue: Languages of the World (20th Edition) . Dallas: SIL International (2017). Archived October 26, 2017. (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ Blench R. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages. 3rd Edition (eng.) (Pdf) P. 53, 94-95. Cambridge: Roger Blench Website. Publications (2012). Archived November 28, 2016. (Checked October 26, 2017)
- ↑ Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M. , Bank S .: Language: Gengle-Kugama (Eng.) . . Jena: (2016). Archived October 26, 2017. (Checked October 26, 2017)