Kihā́mmic
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| Kihā́mmic kihāmatī́zô tárak | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation: | /kɪɦɑːmaˈtiːzo ˈtaɾak/ |
| Spoken in: | Kihāmát |
| Region: | Pacific Ocean |
| Total speakers: | 5,283,084 (native) |
| Ranking: | 121 |
| Language family: | Panlaffic languages |
| Writing system: | Panlaffic alphabet, Latin alphabet (Panlaffic) |
| Official status | |
| Official language in: | Kihāmát |
| Regulated by: | The Kihā́mmic Institute of Language and Linguistics |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | kh |
| ISO 639-2 | kih |
| SIL | kih |
| See also: Language – Lists of languages | |
The Kihā́mmic language (Kihā́mmic Latin: Lố kihāmatī́zô tárak, [ˈlo kɪɦɑːmaˈtiːzo ˈtaɾak]) is the main language spoken in Kihāmát. It is an inflected fusional nominative-accusative language, which has two numbers, three genders and nine cases. There are over five million native speakers of Kihā́mmic at present; nearly seventy per cent of the country's population, the majority of the remaining thirty per cent speak Kihā́mmic fluently as their second language. The language belongs to the isolated family, which is indigenous to the eight islands that make up Kihāmát. There are six other extant Panlaffic languages, including the closely related Church Kihā́mmic, as well as a few more extinct languages.