Dji-vi-lam

Dji-vi-lam [dJEE-vee-lam], meaning “tongue of the Dji people”, is the common languageplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLanguages

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This is in a series of articles about Languages and Communication.

topics sidebar cult1 of Taur-dji-oum. It is a Li-bam language with hundreds of dialects with varying degrees of mutual intelligibility. Given the isolation of the mountain environment, some dialects are almost unintelligible with people only a few valleys away.

Northern Djivilam is heavily influenced by Daltirich (itself a cousin of the Li-bam languages). Northern dialects also have many loan words from Doroun, particularly vocabulary related to law, religion and trade goods.