Ningye language
Ningye is spoken by 3,000 to 4,000 people in Ningeshen Kurmi village, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The village is situated about 19 kilometers south of Fadan Karshi on the Akwanga road.[3]
| Ningye | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Kaduna state |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2008)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nbr Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu |
| Glottolog | ning1271[2] |
Ningye is a Plateau language of Nigeria.
References
- Ningye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ningye". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.
- Blench, Roger. 2011. The Ningye language of Central Nigeria and its affinities.
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