Gwara language

Gwara
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Kaduna State, Nassarawa State
Native speakers	a few hundred fluent speakers to < 3,000 with some knowledge (2009)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Central ? Koroic Gwara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`gwar1240`^[2]

Gwara is a newly discovered Plateau language of Nigeria. It was first reported by Roger Blench in 2009. There are marked similarities with the related language Idun, but some of these may be due to borrowing.^[1]

References

1 2 Roger Blench (2009), "Gwara, an unknown language of Central Nigeria"
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gwara". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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