Numana is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria.
Numana | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Native speakers | 50,000, including Nunku (2008)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nbr |
Glottolog | numa1252 |
ELP | Ningye |
Varieties
editThere are four principal dialects:[2]
- Gbantu
- Numbu
- Ningye
- Janda
Nunku had previously been counted as Numana, due to geographic proximity, but is actually a dialect of Mada.
References
edit- ^ Numana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ [1]