Kuturmi language

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Kuturmi
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State
Native speakers
10,500 (2000) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 khj
Glottolog kutu1262
ELP Kuturmi
Personà-kró [2]
Peopleā-kró
Languageìkryó
Personóbìrò [2]
Peopleòbírò
Languageìbìrò

Kuturmi, or Ada, is a Plateau language cluster of Kachia LGA, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Varieties

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References

  1. Kuturmi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.