Hasha language
Hasha, also known as Yashi, is a Plateau language of Nasarawa State Nigeria. It has an idiosyncratic system of reduplicating the first syllable of noun stems, apparently under the influence of the Chadic language Sha.
Hasha | |
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Yashi | |
hàʃà | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Nassarawa State |
Native speakers | 3,000 (1999)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ybj |
Glottolog | hash1238 [2] |
haʃa[3] | |
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Person | háʃà |
People | háʃa |
Language | hàʃà |
Hasha is spoken by about 3,000 people in Kwààn (Yàshì Sarki; Bwora), which is the main settlement, and also in the two nearby villages of Hàshàsu (Yàshì Pá) and Hùsù (Yàshì Madaki; Kusu).[3][4]
References
- Hasha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hasha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger. 2012. The Hasha (Yashi) language of Central Nigeria and its affinities.
- Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.
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- Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.
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