Recent Resources
Table to help English speakers understand the Bom parallel to vowels.
Picture that shows the words for various structures on the face and hand.
This project documents two dying languages spoken in the coastal tidelands of south-eastern Sierra L
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.
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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,