Longuda language

Nungura[3]
People	Nùngùrábà
Language	Nyà Núngúrá

Longuda
	Nyà Núngúrá
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Adamawa State, Gombe State
Ethnicity	Longuda people
Native speakers	(32,000 cited 1973)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo ? Bambukic Longuda; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lnu
Glottolog	long1389[2]

Longuda (Nʋngʋra) is a Niger–Congo language of Nigeria. Joseph Greenberg counted it as a distinct branch, G10, of his Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it a branch within Waja–Jen. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Longuda was made a branch of the Bambukic languages.

The current number of speakers is unknown. Ethnologue cites an SIL figure of 32,000 from 1973.[1]

Variants of the name Longuda include Languda, Longura, Nunguda, Nungura, Nunguraba.

Dialects

In the Adamawa Languages Project website, Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) lists five dialects in the Longuda dialect cluster.[4]

Longuda/Lunguda of Guyuk and Wala Lunguda
Nʋngʋra(ma) of Cerii, Banjiram
Longura(ma) of Thaarʋ (Koola)
Nʋngʋra(ma) of Gwaanda (Nyuwar)
Nʋngʋra(ma) of Deele (Jessu)

Partly due to word taboo customs, there is considerable lexical diversity among Longuda dialects.[5]

Names and locations

Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).[3]

Language	Branch	Dialects	Alternate spellings	Own name for language	Endonym(s)	Speakers	Location(s)
Lunguda	Lunguda	Nya Guyuwa (Guyuk plains), Nya Ceriya (Banjiram=Cirimba/Chikila cerembe rookie place), Nya Tariya (Kola=Taraba), Nya Dele (Jessu=Delebe), Nya Gwanda (Nyuar=Gwandaba)	Lunguda, Nunguda, Nungura, Nunguraba	nyà núngúrá Guyuk, Nungurama Nyuar	Núngúráyábá Guyuk, Nùngùrábà Jessu, Lungúrábá Kola	13,700 (1952: Numan Division); 32,000 (1973 SIL)	Adamawa State, Guyuk LGA; Gombe State, Balanga LGA

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References

Longuda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Longuda". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. Longuda group. Adamawa Languages Project.
Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.

External links

Longuda (Adamawa Languages Project)

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[e18-1] Longuda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Longuda". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[BlenchAtlas4-3] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

[4] Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. Longuda group. Adamawa Languages Project.

[Guldemann-5] Güldemann, Tom (2018). "Historical linguistics and genealogical language classification in Africa". In Güldemann, Tom (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of Africa. The World of Linguistics series. 11. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 58–444. doi:10.1515/9783110421668-002. ISBN 978-3-11-042606-9.