Gwara language

Gwara
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Kaduna State, Nassarawa State
Native speakers	a few hundred fluent speakers to < 3,000 with some knowledge (2009)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Central ? Koroic Gwara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`gwar1240`^[2]

Gwara is a newly discovered Plateau language of Nigeria. There are marked similarities with the related language Idun, but some of these may be due to borrowing.^[1]

References

1 2 Roger Blench (2009), "Gwara, an unknown language of Central Nigeria"
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gwara". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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