Numana language

Numana
Native toNigeria
Native speakers
50,000, including Nunku (2008)[1]
Dialects
  • Gbantu (Gwantu)
  • Ningye
  • Numbu
  • Janda
Language codes
ISO 639-3nbr
Glottolognuma1252
ELPNingye

Numana is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria.[2]

Varieties

There are four principal dialects:[3]

  • Gbantu
  • Numbu
  • Ningye
  • Janda

Nunku had previously been counted as Numana, due to geographic proximity, but is actually a dialect of Mada.

References

  1. ^ Numana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Numana". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ^ [1]


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