Gbiri-Niragu language

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Gbiri-Niragu
Gure-Kahugu
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State
Native speakers
(25,000 cited 2000) [1]
Dialects
  • Gbiri (Gure)
  • Niragu (Kahugu)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 grh
Glottolog gbir1241
PersonuGbiri
PeopleəGbiri
LanguagetuGbiri

Gbiri-Niragu, also known as Gure-Kahugu, is a Kainji language of Nigeria. Speakers are shifting to Hausa.

Tugbiri is the name of the language of the Gbiri people, and is spoken in and around the village of Gure in Lere LGA, southern Kaduna State. [2] Aniragu speakers live directly to the north of Tugbiri speakers.

Numerals

Gbiri-Niragu has, or had, a duodecimal number system. [3]

AniraguTugbiri
1inu-də
2bao-ba
3taro-tar
4nazo-naaz
5ishikokishii
6tashikʊtashɨ
7sundurikusundəri
8nanaskʊnaaz
9kishanoaskutururi
A12 (10)akernaba-ikeranaba
B12 (11)kitishui-lyem
1012 (12)ripiri-kpiri

References

  1. ↑ Gbiri-Niragu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Blench, Roger (2012). "The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria" (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ↑ Matsushita, 'Decimal vs. Duodecimal'


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