[2] Other dialects are Dirim (Dirin, Dirrim), Lamja, Dengsa, and Tola.
Blench (2011) lists Dirim as coordinate with other Daka varieties: Nnakenyare, Mapeo, Jangani, Lamja, Dirim, suggesting that if Lamja and Dirim are considered separate languages, as in Ethnologue, then Samba Daka itself needs to be broken up into three additional languages.
[3] Greenberg placed Samba Daka within his Adamawa proposal, as group G3, but Bennett (1983) demonstrated to general satisfaction that it is a Benue–Congo language, though its placement within Benue–Congo is disputed.
Boyd (ms), however, considers Daka an isolate branch within Niger–Congo (Blench 2008).
Blench (2011) lists Taram as a separate, though closely related, language.