Ngas language
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Ngas | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | 400,000 (1998)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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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
- ↑ Ngas reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ↑ 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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