Longuda language

Longuda
Native to Nigeria
Region Adamawa State, Bauchi State
Ethnicity Longuda people
Native speakers
 unknown (32,000 cited 1973)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lnu
Glottolog long1389[2]

Longuda is a Niger–Congo language of Nigeria. Joseph Greenberg counted it as a distinct branch, G10, of his Adamawa family. Boyd (1989) assigned it a branch within Waja–Jen. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Longuda was made a branch of the Bambukic languages.

The current number of speakers is unknown. Ethnologue cites an SIL figure of 32,000 from 1973.[1]

Variants of the name 'Longuda' include Languda, Longura, Nunguda, Nungura, Nunguraba.

References

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


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