Ngas language

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Ngas
Native to Nigeria
Region Plateau State
Native speakers
400,000  (1998)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 anc
Ethnic territories (tan) of the Ngas-speaking people (Angas) in Nigeria

Ngas, or Angas, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects are Hill Angas and Plain Angas.[2]

Notes

  1. Ngas 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.

Further reading

  • Donald A. Burquest. 1971. A Preliminary Study of Angas Phonology. Zaria: Institute of Linguistics.
  • Donald A. Burquest. 1973. "A Grammar of Angas," University of California at Los Angeles PhD dissertation.


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