: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= Abasamia

|speakers=480,000

|date=2002 & 2009 censuses

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Volta-Congo

|fam4=Benue–Congo

|fam5=Bantoid

|fam6=Southern Bantoid

|fam7=Bantu

|fam8=Northeast Bantu

|fam9=Great Lakes Bantu

|fam10=Masaba–Luhya

|fam11=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.Maho (2009)