Gyong language

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Gyong
Kagoma
Gyong
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State
Ethnicity Gwong
Native speakers
(25,000 cited 2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kdm
Glottolog kago1247

Gyong, also known as Kagoma, [2] [3] [4] [5] is a Plateau language of Nigeria. [6] spoken by about 20,000 people in northwest Nigeria. The people call themselves Acipu and are called Acipawa in Hausa.<ref> It is spoken by the Gwong people, whose indigenous homeland is in Jema'a Local Government Area in the southern part of Kaduna State, Nigeria.

References

  1. ↑ Gyong at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ "Joshua Project entry on Gyong" . Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Current Ethnologue entry on Gyong" . Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Gyong (Kagoma) - a database of language word list data with audio samples for analysis and historical and comparative linguistic reconstruction" . Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ Ibrahim, Musa Rhoda. "A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PHRASE IN GYONG AND ENGLISH". eduprojecttopics.com. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
  6. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kagoma". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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