Geruma language

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Geruma
Native to Nigeria
Region Bauchi State
Native speakers
9,000  (2000)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gea

Geruma (also known as Gerema, Germa) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. Dialects include Duurum and Sum. Speakers are shifting to Hausa.[2]

Notes

  1. Geruma reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.


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