Eloyi language

Eloyi
Afu
Native to Nigeria
Region Plateau State, Benue State
Native speakers
 25,000  (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 afo
Glottolog eloy1241[2]

Eloyi, or Afu (Afo), is a poorly attested Plateau language of uncertain classification. It is spoken by the Eloyi people of Nasarawa State and Benue State in Nigeria. Ethnologue classifies it as Idomoid based on a proposal by Armstrong (1955, 1983), but that identification was based on a single word list and Armstrong later expressed doubts. All other preliminary accounts classify it as Plateau, and Blench (2008) leaves it as a separate branch of Plateau.

References

  1. ↑ Eloyi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eloyi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.