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Short description: Extinct Grassfields language of Nigeria
Kpati
RegionTaraba State, Nigeria
Extinct1980se25
Niger–Congo
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta-Congo
      • Benue–Congo
        • Bantoid
          • Southern Bantoid
            • Grassfields
              • Eastern Grassfields
                • Mbam-Nkam
                  • Ngemba
                    • Kpati
Language codes
ISO 639-3koc
Glottologkpat1246[1]

Kpati is an extinct Grassfields language formerly spoken in the Wukari and Takum LGAs of Taraba State, Nigeria.[2] It was first reported as extinct by Grimes, Barbara (1984).[3][4] Kpati was classified as a Ngemba language by Fivas – Scott (1977).[3]

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Kpati". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kpat1246. 
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  3. 3.0 3.1 Brenzinger, Matthias (1992) (in en). Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 363. ISBN 9783110134049. https://books.google.com/books?id=iKHOeLDvUVgC&q=kpati&pg=PA301. 
  4. Grimes, Barbara. "Languages of the world" (1984), p. 235