| Nyifon | |
|---|---|
| Iordaa | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Buruku LGA, Benue State |
Native speakers | (1,000 cited 1990s)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | nyif1234 |
Nyifon (Iordaa) is a poorly known Jukunoid language[2] of Buruku LGA, Benue State, Nigeria. There may have been about 1,000 speakers in the 1990s.[1] The language is not reported in Ethnologue. Glottolog lists it as a dialect of Wapan language.
References
- 1 2 Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyifon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.