Gbantu language

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. Nka, spoken by the Aninka, may be another, or perhaps a distinct language, as mutual intelligibility with Numana is low.[3] Nunku is apparently a dialect of Mada, not Gbantu.

Gbantu
Gwantu
Native toNigeria
Native speakers
40,000, including Nunku (2008)[1]
Dialects
  • Gbantu
  • Numana
  • Numbu
  • Janda
  • Nka
Language codes
ISO 639-3nbr
Glottolognuma1252[2]

Varieties

Blench (2019) lists the following varieties in what he calls the Numbu–Gbantu-Nunku–Numana cluster.[4]

  • 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
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References
  1. Gbantu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Numana". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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