Hun-Saare language

"Hun language" redirects here. For the language spoken by the Huns, see Hunnic language.

Hun-Saare
Duka
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Kebbi State, Niger State
Native speakers	(73,000 cited 1985) [1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Kainji Northwest Kainji Hun-Saare
Dialects	Hun Saare
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: uss  – Us-Saare uth  – Ut-Hun
Glottolog	huns1239

Hun-Saare or Duka is a Kainji language ^[2] of Nigeria. The eastern and western dialects are known as Hun (Ut-Hun) and Saare (Us-Saare), but speakers use Saare for both.

References

1. Us-Saare at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Ut-Hun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hun-Saare". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Further reading

• Sociolinguistic survey of the Duka (Hun-Saare) people