Gbantu language
(Redirected from Numana language)
Gbantu | |
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Gwantu | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Native speakers | 40,000, including Nunku (2008)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | nbr |
Glottolog | numa1252 |
Gbantu (Gwantu) is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Gwantu is the name of the principal dialect; the others are Numana, Janda and Numbu.
Varieties
Blench (2019) lists the following varieties in what he calls the Numbu–Gbantu-Nunku–Numana cluster.[2]
- Numbu
- Gbantu
- Nunku (three sub-dialects)
- Nunku (spoken in Nunku and Ungwar Mallam)
- Nunkucu (spoken in Nunkucu and Anku)
- sub-dialect spoken in Nicok (Ungwar Jatau) and Ungwan Makama villages
- Numana
References
- ^ Gbantu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.