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ALSO KNOWN AS		Kosin, Kaw
CLASSIFICATION		Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Southern Bantoid
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		kid
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Information from: “What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields” . Jeff Good and Pierpaolo DiCarlo (2012)

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000-3,500
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Due to traditional predominance of multilingualism, if we wanted to establish the number of total speakers of a given language of Lower Fungom, we would be obliged to consider the whole area and not confine ourselves to the village which gives the name to the language. This means that, at any given moment, the “speech community” associated with a particular language consists both of those resident in its associated village and of significant numbers of non-residents.

PLACES: Cameroon

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Lower Fungom region, Cameroon; village of Koshin.

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1000
Native speakers worldwide

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000 (2001 SIL)
Native speakers worldwide

PLACES: Cameroon;

	2012	What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields		Manuscript			University at Buffalo	http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/DiCarloGood-LFIdeology.pdf	Jeff Good and Pierpaolo DiCarlo	Jeff Good and Pierpaolo DiCarlo. 2012. "What Are We Trying To Preserve? Diversity, Change, and Ideology At the Edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields." Online: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcgood/DiCarloGood-LFIdeology.pdf.		3,000-3,500	1000-9999	Due to traditional predominance of multilingualism, if we wanted to establish the number of total speakers of a given language of Lower Fungom, we would be obliged to consider the whole area and not confine ourselves to the village which gives the name to the language. This means that, at any given moment, the “speech community” associated with a particular language consists both of those resident in its associated village and of significant numbers of non-residents.	No estimate available	Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Cameroon	Lower Fungom region, Cameroon; village of Koshin.	6.588150, 10.281317
		World Oral Literature Project						http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.		1000	100-999			Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)	M. Paul Lewis		SIL International	Dallas, TX		http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	1,000 (2001 SIL)	100-999			Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	Cameroon;

Koshin

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Language information by source

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

3,000-3,500

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1000

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000 (2001 SIL)

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Koshin

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

3,000-3,500

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1000

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

1,000 (2001 SIL)

Discussion

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