Eloyi language

Eloyi
Afu
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State, Benue State
Native speakers	25,000 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Eloyi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`afo`
Glottolog	`eloy1241`^[2]

Eloyi, or Afu (Afo), is a poorly attested Plateau language of uncertain classification. It is spoken by the Eloyi people of Nasarawa State and Benue State in Nigeria. Ethnologue classifies it as Idomoid based on a proposal by Armstrong (1955, 1983), but that identification was based on a single word list and Armstrong later expressed doubts. All other preliminary accounts classify it as Plateau, and Blench (2008) leaves it as a separate branch of Plateau.

References

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

Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.

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