Hasha language

Hasha
Yashi
Native to Nigeria
Region Nassarawa State
Native speakers
3,000 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ybj
Glottolog hash1238[2]

Hasha AKA Yashi is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It has an idiosyncratic system of reduplicating the first syllable of noun stems, apparently under the influence of the Chadic language Sha.

References

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