Karekare language

Karakare
Spoken in Nigeria
Region Bauchi State, Yobe State
Native speakers 150,000  (1993)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kai
Ethnic territories (pink) of the Karekare-speaking people (Kare) in Nigeria

Karekare (also known as Karaikarai, Karai Karai, Kerekere, Kerrikerri) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State and Yobe State, Nigeria. Dialects include Birkai, Jalalam, and Kwarta Mataci.[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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