Ahwai language

Not to be confused with Tari language.
Ahwai
Region Nigeria
Ethnicity Ahwai
Native speakers
15,000 (2006)[1]
Dialects
Ndun
Nyeng
Shakara
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nfd
Glottolog ahwa1235[2]
Nandu
Person aner andùn
People bener andùn
Language indùn
Ningon
Person anyeŋ
People banyeŋ
Language hanyeŋ
Tari
Person kùʃákárá
People úʃàkárá
Language ìʃákárá

Ahwai is one of the Plateau languages of Nigeria. There are three mutually intelligible dialects, Ndun (Nandu), Nyeng (Ningon), and Shakara (Tari).

Blench (2008) classified them as distinct Ndunic languages. However, that same year Ethnologue merged them as a single language.

References

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


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