A short video story on Tucker Childs and Hannah Sarvasy's work to document Kim.
Also Known As:
Kim, Kittim, Kirim, Kimi
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
Map of towns where speakers of Kim/Bom were found in surveys by Dr. Tucker Childs, 2006-2009.
Critically Endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
a few hundred
Native Speakers Worldwide
Transmission
Transmission 5
There are only a few elderly speakers.
5
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
G. Tucker Childs. 2012. "One or Two? Bom and Kim, Two Highly Endangered South Atlantic “languages” of Sierra Leone." In World Congress on African Linguistics (WOCAL 7), Buea, Cameroon,
Bibliography of Locations:
Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
Bibliography of Context:
G. Tucker Childs. 2012. "One or Two? Bom and Kim, Two Highly Endangered South Atlantic “languages” of Sierra Leone." In World Congress on African Linguistics (WOCAL 7), Buea, Cameroon,