Pan language
Pan is an Afro-Asiatic dialect cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria.
| Kofyar | |
|---|---|
| Pan | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
| Ethnicity | Kofyar |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2000)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kwl |
| Glottolog | kofy1242[2] |
Dialects
Dialects are Bwol, Dimmuk (Doemak), Gworam, Jipal, Kofyar (Kwong), Kwagallak (Kwolla), and Mirriam (Mernyang).[1]
Blench (2019) lists the following language varieties in the Pan cluster.[3] Village locations are cited by Blench (2019) from Hon, et al. (2014).[4]
- Mernyang: spoken in Dokan Kasuwa, Dokan Tofa, Kwaning, Laardang, Kwang, Kwa, Miket villages
- Doemak: spoken in Kofyar Doemak, Goechim, Ba'ap, Kopar, Doemak villages
- Tèŋ (Teng): spoken in Nteng, Gyeer, Ɗoop, Kelaghan, Loon, Kwakii, Zhep Morop, Gorom villages[5]
- Kwagallak: spoken in Tim, Kopfogon, Chim, Yitiar, Kwoor, Kwalla, Shangfuup, Kopbepang, Moeda villages
- Bwol (Bwall): spoken in Dungras, Nakum, Tanba, Bwall, Goepil villages
- Gworam
- Jipal: spoken in Katul, Kabum, Kanjing, Kaburuk, Shawk, Kaper, rundum, Jipal, Bul, Kwa, Male, Zwakal villages
- Shindai
Note that in the villages names, orthographic oe stands for the mid central vowel ə, a practice that had been adopted by missionaries in the Shendam area during the 1930s, such as Father E. Sirlinger.[6][7][8]
Notes
- Kofyar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pan". 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.
- Hon, Luther; Gobak, Fittokka; Agwom, Izang; Muniru, John; Nweke, Uche S. 2014. A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Kofyar (Koffiar) of Plateau State, Nigeria. Ms. Jos, Nigeria: Language Development Facilitators.
- Blench, Roger (2019). "Nteng: an undocumented language of Central Nigeria".
- Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.
- Sirlinger, Father E. 1937. Dictionary of the Goemai Language. Prefecture Apostolic of Jos. Typescript.
- Sirlinger, Father E. 1942. A grammar of the Goemai Language. Prefecture Apostolic of Jos. Typescript.
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