Kwanka language

Not to be confused with Kwang language (Chad).
Kwanka
Kwang (Kwaŋ)
Bijim
Native to Nigeria
Region Plateau State, Bauchi State
Native speakers
20,000 (2003)[1]
Dialects
  • Vaghat (Kwanka)
  • Ya (Boi)
  • Bijim
  • Legeri
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bij
Glottolog vagh1247[2]

Kwanka, or Kwang, is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Kwanka is an alternate name of the principal dialect, Vaghat; the others are Ya (Boi), Bijim, and Legeri.

References

  1. Kwanka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Vaghat-Ya-Bijim-Legeri". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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