Lufu language

Lufu
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Taraba State
Native speakers	3,200 (2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Yukubenic Bete–Lufu Lufu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ldq
Glottolog	lufu1237[2]

The Lufu language of Nigeria is a language still spoken mostly by older adults among the Lufu people of the Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun. It is close to Bete.

Bibliography

• Crozier, David H. and Roger M. Blench, editors. 1992. An index of Nigerian languages. Abuja, Nigeria and Dallas: Nigerian Language Development Centre, Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, and Summer Institute of Linguistics.

References

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