Kofyar | |
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Pan | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Plateau State |
Ethnicity | Kofyar |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2000)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kwl |
Glottolog | kofy1242 |
Pan is an Afro-Asiatic dialect cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria.
Dialects are Bwol, Dimmuk (Doemak), Gworam, Jipal, Kofyar (Kwong), Kwagallak (Kwolla), and Mirriam (Mernyang).[1]
Blench (2019) lists the following language varieties in the Pan cluster.[2] Village locations are cited by Blench (2019) from Hon, et al. (2014).[3]
Note that in the villages names, orthographic oe stands for the mid central vowel ə, a practice that had been adopted by missionaries in the Shendam area during the 1930s, such as Father E. Sirlinger.[5][6][7]
Official languages | |
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National languages | |
Recognised languages | |
Indigenous languages | |
Sign languages | |
Immigrant languages | |
Scripts |
Hausa– Gwandara (A.1) | |||||||
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Bole– Tangale (A.2) |
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Angas (A.3) | |||||||
Ron (A.4) | |||||||
Bade (B.1) | |||||||
North Bauchi (Warji) (B.2) | |||||||
South Bauchi (Barawa) (B.3) |
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Others | |||||||
Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages |