Degema language

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Degema is an Edoid language spoken by about 22,000 people in the south-eastern Nigerian communities of Usokun-Degema and Degema Town (Atala). Each of the communities speaks a variety of Degema that is known by the name of the community. In this regard, there are the Usokun variety and the Degema Town (Atala) variety. The differences between these two varieties are slight. There is no standard variety yet. However, in recent times, there appear to be more scholarly descriptive linguistic publications on the Usokun variety than on the Degema Town (Atala) variety (see Kari 1997, 2003, 2004, and 2008).

[edit] See also

• Defaka

[edit] References

• Kari, Ethelbert E. (1997). Degema. Munchen-Newcastle: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-214-2. 
• Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel (2003). Clitics in Degema: A meeting point of phonology, morphology, and syntax. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). ISBN 4-87297-850-1. 
• Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel (2004). A reference grammar of Degema. Koln: Rudiger Koppe Verlag. ISBN 3-89645-047-6. 
• Kari, Ethelbert Emmanuel (2008). Degema-English dictionary with English index. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA). ISBN 978-4-86337-018-0.