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The Angas, Angas–Sura, or Central West Chadic languages are a branch of West Chadic languages spoken in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria.
Ron is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects include Bokkos, Daffo-Mbar-Butura, Monguna. Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages.
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The South Plateau languages, also known as Jilic–Eggonic, are spoken in central Nigeria. Eggon has 150,000 speakers and Jili perhaps 100,000.
The four Beromic languages are a branch of the Plateau languages spoken in central Nigeria by approximately 1 million people.
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Cara, also called Teriya after the village it is spoken in, is a small Plateau language of central Nigeria. Cara is spoken by about 3,000 people in Teriya village, Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria.
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References
- ↑ Hasha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- 1 2 Blench, Roger. 2012. The Hasha (Yashi) language of Central Nigeria and its affinities.
- ↑ Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.
- Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.