Gbantu language

Gbantu
Gwantu
Native to Nigeria
Native speakers
 40,000 (2008)[1]
Dialects
  • Numana
  • Nunku
  • Gbantu
  • Numbu
Language codes
ISO 639-3 nbr
Glottolog numa1252[2]

Gbantu (Gwantu) is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Gwantu is the name of the principal dialect; the others are Numana, Nunku (not Nungu, another Plateau language) and Numbu.

References

  1. ↑ Gbantu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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