Vori language

Vori
Surubu
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State
Native speakers
7,200 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 sde
Glottolog suru1258[2]

Vori (also called Surubu or Skrubu) is a Kainji language of Nigeria.

Roger Blench (2016)[3] reports that the people referred to as Surubu in the present literature are actually called Vori. Their main centre is the town of Geshere, which is west of Mariri on the Lere road. The Vori live in 10 settlements, and there are about 3,000 to 4,000 speakers.

Bina, another undocumented language, is spoken nearby.

References

  1. Vori at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Surubu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger. 2016. Weeping over the disappearance of Nigeria’s minority languages: how to get more reliable information and what to do about it. Presentation, Jos Linguistic Circle.


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