Yiwom language

Yiwom
	Gerka
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	14,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Yiwom; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gek
Glottolog	yiwo1237[2]

Yiwom (Ywom), also known as Gerka or Gerkawa by the Hausa,[3] is a Chadic (Afro-Asiatic) language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria.

Ywom was formerly much more widespread, with Ywom toponyms found in southern Tarok-speaking areas.[3] Roger Blench (2013)[4] reports that Ywom is spoken in Hyel Ywom town and nearby hamlets. Many Ywom speak Jukun and Tarok as additional languages.[4] Due to influence from Plateau languages, Ywom has various phonological features that are considered unusual for a West Chadic language, such as labiovelar consonants.[3]

References

Yiwom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yiwom". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.
Blench, Roger. 2013. However did Ywom become so strange?.

External links

Blench, Roger. 2013. However did Ywom become so strange?.
Paradisec has an open access collection of Roger Blench’s materials that includes Yiwom language materials

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

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

[Blench2017-3] Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.

[Blench2013-4] Blench, Roger. 2013. However did Ywom become so strange?.