Social:Fali of Baissa
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Short description: Endangered Benue–Congo language of Nigeria
| Fali | |
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| Fali of Baissa | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Taraba State |
| Extinct | 2000s[1] |
Niger–Congo
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | fah |
| Glottolog | bais1242[2] |
Fali is an unclassified Benue-Congo language of Nigeria, once spoken in the town of Baissa in Taraba State. The language is unwritten, and it went extinct in the 2000s.
Genetic affiliation
Baissa Fali belongs to the Benue–Congo sub-family of the Niger–Congo languages. Its position within this family remains a matter of discussion.[3]
References
- ↑ "Fali of Baissa". Ethnologue. https://www.ethnologue.com/language/fah/. "Last speakers may have survived into the 2000s."
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Baissa Fali". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bais1242.
- ↑ Williamson, Kay (1989) 'Benue–Congo Overview', pp. 248–274 in Bendor-Samuel, John & Rhonda L. Hartell (eds.) The Niger–Congo Languages – A classification and description of Africa's largest language family. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
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