Kurama language

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Kurama
T'kurmi
Native to Nigeria
Region Kano and Kaduna states
Native speakers
(40,000 cited 2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 krh
Glottolog kura1249
Kurmi [2]
PersonBukurmi
PeopleAkurmi
LanguageT'kurmi

The Kurama or T'kurmi or Akurmi language is a Kainji language of Nigeria. [3] Kurama speakers are found in the central northern Nigerian states of Kaduna, Bauchi, Borno, Kano, Jigawa and Plateau.

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88% of the population of the Akurmi people are Christians. [4]

Further reading

The Akurmi people of central Nigeria. Akurmi Study group, 2012.

References

  1. ↑ Kurama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kurama". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ "Kurama". Joshua project.
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