Hyam language

Hyam
Jabba
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State
Native speakers
300,000 (2014)[1]
Dialects
Hyam of Nok
Sait
Dzar
Yaat
Ankum
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jab
Glottolog hyam1245[2]

Hyam, or Jabba, is a regionally important dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Hyam of Nok is the prestige dialect. Blench (2008) treats it, Sait, and Dzar as distinct languages, and notes that Yaat and Ankun may also be separate.

References

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


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