Ngwaba language

Ngwaba
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Adamawa State
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1993) [1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Tera (A.1) [2] Ngwaba; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ngw
Glottolog	ngwa1251 [3]

Last updated April 27, 2019

Ngwaba (also known as Gombi, Goba) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria in Adamawa State in the Gombi and Hong LGAs.^[1]

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Its coast in the south is located on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean. The federation comprises 36 states and 1 Federal Capital Territory, where the capital, Abuja, is located. The constitution defines Nigeria as a democratic secular country.

Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, with its capital at Yola. In 1991, when Taraba State was carved out from Gongola State, the geographical entity Gongola State was renamed Adamawa State, with four administrative divisions: Adamawa, Ganye, Mubi and Numan. It is the home of the American University of Nigeria in Yola and Modibbo Adama University of Technology Yola. It is one of the thirty-six states that constitute the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Notes

1 2 Ngwaba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngwaba". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] 1 2 Ngwaba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[2] Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ngwaba". Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.