Dikaka language

This article is about the Nigerian language. For other uses, see Mona language (disambiguation).
Dikaka
Dijim-Bwilim
Native to eastern Nigeria
Native speakers
25,000 (1998)[1]
Dialects
Dijim (Cham, Cam)
Bwilim (Mwana, Mona)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 cfa
Glottolog diji1241[2]

Dikaka is one of the Savanna languages of eastern Nigeria. It's also known as Dijim-Bwilim, after its two dialects, Dijim and Bwilim. A tonal language, it has a whistled register.

References

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


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