Ga'anda language

Ga'anda
Spoken in Nigeria
Region Adamawa State
Native speakers 43,000  (1992)
Language family
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]

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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