Samia language

{{Short description|Bantu language spoken in Uganda and Kenya}} {{Redirect|Songa language|the purported Songa language of DRC|Buyu language}} {{Infobox language |name=Samia |nativename=''Olusaamia'' |states=[[Uganda]], [[Kenya]] |region=[[Busia District]] and [[Busia County]] |ethnicity= [[Samia tribe|Abasamia]] |speakers=480,000 |date=2002 & 2009 censuses |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=[[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]] |fam3=[[Volta-Congo]] |fam4=[[Benue–Congo languages|Benue–Congo]] |fam5=[[Bantoid languages|Bantoid]] |fam6=[[Southern Bantoid]] |fam7=[[Bantu languages|Bantu]] |fam8=[[Northeast Bantu]] |fam9=[[Great Lakes Bantu]] |fam10=[[Masaba language|Masaba]]–Luhya |fam11=[[Luhya language|Luhya]] |iso3=lsm |glotto=saam1283 |glottorefname=Saamia |dia1=Samia |dia2=Songa (?) |guthrie=JE.34,343 }}

'''Samia''' (Saamia) is a Bantu language spoken by the [[Luhya people]] of Uganda and Kenya. ''Ethnologue'' includes Songa as a dialect, but it may be a separate language.<ref>Maho (2009)</ref>

==See also== * [[Luhya language]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{Languages of Kenya}} {{Languages of Uganda}} {{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones E–H)}} {{Narrow Bantu languages (Zones J–M)}} {{Authority control}}

[[Category:Languages of Kenya]] [[Category:Languages of Uganda]] [[Category:Luhya language]]

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