Putai language

Putai
Native to Nigeria
Region Borno State
Native speakers
unknown (undated figure of 50)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mfl
Glottolog puta1243[2]
Linguasphere 18-GBB-c

Putai (also known as Marghi West) is a nearly extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. The language is dying out and being replaced by Kanuri.[1]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Putai at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Putai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.