Adara language
Adara (also Eda[4] and Kadara), is a Plateau language of Nigeria. The name Adara is also used to refer to an ethnic group.
| Adara | |
|---|---|
| Eda | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Kaduna State; Niger State |
Native speakers | 300,000 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kad |
| Glottolog | kada1284[2] |
| Person | Àndara[3] |
|---|---|
| People | Àdara |
| Language | Èdrà |
| Person | Ànda[3] |
|---|---|
| People | Àda |
| Language | Èdà |
Some estimates place the population of the Adara people at around 350,000. About 55% of the Adara are Christians while some also adhere to Islam.[5]
Distribution
Though Adara people are migrants in Kaduna State, (Kadara) is spoken mainly in Kachia and Kajuru Local Government Areas of Kaduna State and in Niger State in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria.
Conflict
The Adara people were involved in almost all the ethno-religious conflict in Kaduna State. The Fulani rights group, Voice of the Fulani have accused the Adara local vigilantes , popularly called Adara Militia of killing and mutilating the bodies of over one thousand Fulani people between 2011 to 2020.
Dialects
Dialects of the Adara language include the Adara dialect, Eneje, Ada, Ekhwa, and Ajiya.[6]:1
Blench (2019) lists Eda, Edra, and Enezhe as dialects.[3]
Phonology
References
- Adara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kadara". 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.
- Roger Blench (5 July 2009). "The Eda [= Kadara] language of Central Nigeria" (PDF).
- Joshua project entry on the Adara
- Hon, Luther; Ajaegbu, Grace; Magnusson, Carol; Nweke, Uche S.; Yoder, Zachariah (27 April 2012). "A Summary of a Sociolinguistic Survey of the Adara of Kaduna and Niger States, Nigeria" (PDF). SIL.
External links
- Listen to a sample of Adara from Global Recordings Network
- Eda wordlist (with English and Hausa)
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