Putai language

Putai
Native to Nigeria
Region Borno State
Native speakers
(undated figure of 50)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mfl
Glottolog puta1243[2]
Linguasphere 18-GBB-c

Putai (also known as Marghi West) is a nearly extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. The language is dying out and being replaced by Kanuri.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Putai at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Putai". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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