Ahwai language
Not to be confused with Tari language.
| Ahwai | |
|---|---|
| Region | Nigeria |
| Ethnicity | Ahwai |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2006)[1] |
| Dialects |
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nfd |
| Glottolog |
ahwa1235[2] |
| Nandu | |
|---|---|
| Person | aner andùn |
| People | bener andùn |
| Language | indùn |
| Ningon | |
|---|---|
| Person | anyeŋ |
| People | banyeŋ |
| Language | hanyeŋ |
| Tari | |
|---|---|
| Person | kùʃákárá |
| People | úʃàkárá |
| Language | ìʃákárá |
Ahwai is one of the Plateau languages of Nigeria. There are three mutually intelligible dialects, Ndun (Nandu), Nyeng (Ningon), and Shakara (Tari).
Blench (2008) classified them as distinct Ndunic languages. However, that same year Ethnologue merged them as a single language.
References
- ↑ Ahwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ahwai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.
- Ethnologue merger of Ndunic
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