Social:Lere language
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Short description: Endangered Kainji dialect cluster of Nigeria
| Lere | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State, Bauchi State |
| Ethnicity | 16,000 (2000)[1] |
| Extinct | 2018e25 |
Niger–Congo
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gnh |
| Glottolog | lere1241[2] |
Lere is an extinct Kainji dialect cluster of Nigeria. The ethnic population was cited as 16,000 in 2000, of whom only a few speak the language. A wordlist from the Takaya dialect can be found under External links.
Dialects
Dialects are:[3]
- Si (Rishuwa, Kuzamani)
- Gana
- Takaya (Taura)
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namede25 - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Lere". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lere1241.
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
Further reading
- Blench, Roger (2004), "The Status of the East Kainji Languages of Central Nigeria: Recent Research", in Gerhardt, Ludwig, Mallam Dendo
- Blench, Roger (2014), "Nominal Affixing in the Kainji Languages of Northwestern and Central Nigeria", in Watters, John, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation
External links
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