Ga'anda | |
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Spoken in | Nigeria |
Region | Adamawa State |
Native speakers | 43,000 (1992) |
Language family |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gqa |
Ga'anda (also known as Ganda, Ga'andu, Mokar, Makwar) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 10,000 people in the Adamawa state of Nigeria. Some speakers live in the Song, Gyuk, Mubi, and Biu (Borno State) LGAs. It has 2 dialects, Ga'anda and Gabin. Its speakers are generally not monolingual in Ga'anda, instead, they use Hausa and Fulfulde as well. They are becoming more interested in education; Ga'anda has a secondary school. The traditional religions of the people are Christian and Muslim.[1]