Hasha language

Hasha
Yashi
Native to Nigeria
Region Nassarawa State
Native speakers
 3,000  (1999)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ybj
Glottolog hash1238[2]

Hasha AKA Yashi is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It has an idiosyncratic system of reduplicating the first syllable of noun stems, apparently under the influence of the Chadic language Sha.

References

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