| Numana | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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
- ↑ Numana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Numana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑
