Social:Nigbo language

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Short description: Nigerian language
Nigbo
Native toNigeria
RegionKaduna State
Extinct(date missing)
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Benue–Congo
      • Plateau
        • Alumic
          • Nigbo
Language codes
ISO 639-3

Nigbo is an extinct Plateau language of Nigeria. It was spoken near Agameti on the Fadan Karshi-Wamba road near Sanga LGA, Kaduna State.[1] The language, listed in Blench (2012) and (2019), is not reported in Ethnologue or Glottolog. It is presumably an Alumic language based on its proximity to Akpondu, a language closely related to Alumu and Tesu.[2]

The extinct undocumented languages Akpondu and Babur (Bəbər) were also spoken in nearby villages of Nigbo and Babur, respectively.[2]

References

  1. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Blench, Roger M. 2012. Akpondu, Nigbo, Bəbər and Nisam: moribund or extinct languages of central Nigeria Babur.