Karekare language

Karekare
Native to Nigeria
Region Bauchi State, Yobe State
Native speakers
150,000 (1993)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kai
Glottolog kare1348[2]

Ethnic territories (pink) of the Karekare-speaking people (Kare) in Nigeria

Karekare (also known as Karaikarai, Karai Karai, Kerekere, Kerrikerri) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State and Yobe State, Nigeria. Dialects include Birkai, Jalalam, and Kwarta Mataci.[1]

Notes

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

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