Eastern Acipa language

Eastern Acipa
Zubazuba, Səgəmuk
Native toNigeria
RegionNiger State
EthnicityAcipa
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3acp
Glottologeast2403

Eastern Acipa (also known as Zubazuba or Səgəmuk) is a Kainji language[2] of Nigeria. It is not close to the language of the same name to its west, though speakers of both are ethnic Acipa. It had 5,000 speakers in 1993.[1] Speakers refer to their language as Tusəgəmuku.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Eastern Acipa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Eastern Acipa". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ^ Blench, Roger (2012). "The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria" (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.