Ron language

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Ron
Ron
Native to Nigeria
Region Plateau State
Native speakers
230,000 (2020) [1]
Dialects
  • Bokkos
  • Mbar
  • Daffo-Butura
  • Shagawu
  • Maleni
  • Manguna
  • Nafunfia
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cla
Glottolog ronn1241   Ron
mang1417   Mangar
Butura dancers during the Nawhai Festival in Bokkos. Butura dancers 2.jpg
Butura dancers during the Nawhai Festival in Bokkos.

Ron (Run; also known as Challa, Chala) is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects include Bokkos, Daffo-Mbar-Butura (incl. Mangar), Monguna/Manguna (Shagau), (20,000 speakers). [1] Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages. [2]

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Varieties

Blench (2019) lists these language varieties in the Ron (Run) cluster: [3]

Daffo-Mbar-Butura is spoken in Hottom, Maiduna, Hurum, Fanga, Kandik, Faram, Mandung, Mayi, and Josho villages. [4]

Manguna (Shagau) is spoken in Manguna, Mahurum, Hurti, Gwande, Dambwash and Karfa

Curiosity

Although modern Ron uses a decimal system, it is well attested that in the past a duodecimal counting system was used. [5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Ron at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  4. ↑ Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  5. ↑ Dr. Uwe Seibert, Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Jos, Nigeria, March 1, 1999: Ron Numerals

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