Endangered Languages Project - Bom

Bom

^{[aka Bome, Bum, Bomo]}

Classification: Niger-Congo

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critically endangered

Bom is linguistically the same language as Krim, though their speakers may consider them distinct (Childs 2012).

ALSO KNOWN AS		Bome, Bum, Bomo
CLASSIFICATION		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Mel
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bmf
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

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Information from: “One or two? Bom and Kim, two highly endangered South Atlantic “languages” of Sierra Leone” . G. Tucker Childs (2012)

Critically endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
a few hundred
Native speakers worldwide
CHILDREN
0
YOUNG ADULTS
0
OLDER ADULTS
0
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Speaker numbers include both Bom and Krim.

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"There are only a few hundred, all elderly speakers today. No one under fifty speaks the language."

PLACES: Sierra Leone

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Villages in the vicinity of Lake Kamasun, Lake Tibi, and west of the Waanje River.

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
20
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2008

PLACES: Sierra Leone

Severely endangered

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
5000

DATE OF INFO: 1991

SPEAKER NUMBER TRENDS
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

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LOCATION INFORMATION

COORDINATES

7.3188,-11.9915

COORDINATES

7.389705, -11.926715

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing