Kwanka language
Not to be confused with Kwang language (Chad).
| Kwanka | |
|---|---|
| Kwang (Kwaŋ) | |
| Bijim | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State, Bauchi State |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2003)[1] |
| Dialects |
Vaghat (Kwanka)
Ya (Boi)
Bijim
Legeri
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
bij |
| Glottolog |
vagh1247[2] |
Kwanka, or Kwang, is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Kwanka is an alternate name of the principal dialect, Vaghat; the others are Ya (Boi), Bijim, and Legeri.
References
- ↑ Kwanka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vaghat-Ya-Bijim-Legeri". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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