Gwari language

Gwari
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Niger State, Nassarawa State
Ethnicity	Ebira people
Native speakers	unknown (700,000 Gbagyi cited 1991)[1] 350,000 Gbari (2002)
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger noi Nupoid Nupe–Gbagyi Gwari
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: gbr – Gbagyi gby – Gbari
Glottolog	gbag1256[2]

Gwari is a Nupoid language spoken by over a million people in Nigeria. There are two principal varieties, Gbari (West Gwari) and Gbagyi (East Gwari), which have some difficulty in communication; sociolinguistically they are distinct languages.

References

1. Gbagyi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
   Gbari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Gbagyi–Gbari". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.