Nungu language

Nungu
Rindiri
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	30,000 (1999)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Plateau Ninzic Nungu
Dialects	Rindre Gudi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rin
Glottolog	nung1292[2]

Nungu is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It divides in two dialects Guid and Rinde

History

The Rindre culture are found in the north central region of Nigeria.^[3] The total number of the Rindre population spread across the different parts of the country are a little more than a million; the growth of the population increases as there are intermarriages yet some of them still remain as Rindre while others neutralize and change their identities in their new host communities after their migration.

Oral traditions

Most if not all of their oral traditions are spread in a plethora, as most of them make persuasive and convincing claim of ownership. The most convincing chronicles in the Rindre songs are narrowed to two stories:

Rindre folktales

The Kwararafa migration	champions the Kuti tradition
Wakuri federation	They thought that in their migration from Yemen to kwarafa around 596 AD they were helped by alligators, who protected them.

The continued growth of the population and the increasing socialization of the Rindre people, make a spreading of their language from Wamba to some parts of Nasarawa and the Kudan state of Nigeria.

Present

In the present the Rindre people who migrated have continued to change their identity for adaptation to their new environment, some change their names to: English, Arabic, Hausa, Hebrew, Eggon, Mada and also in southern Kaduna, reducing the population of Rindre and Gudi speakers.

References

1. Nungu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Nungu". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. "Nungu, Rindre in Nigeria". Joshua Project. Retrieved 28 November 2014.