Ahwai language

Ahwai
Region	Nigeria
Ethnicity	Ahwai people
Native speakers	15,000 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Ahwai
Dialects	Ndun Nyeng Shakara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`nfd`
Glottolog	`ahwa1235`^[2]

Ahwai is one of the Plateau languages of Nigeria. There are three mutually intelligible dialects, Ndun (Nandu), Nyeng (Ningon) and Shakara (Tari).

Blench (2008) classified them as distinct Ndunic languages. However, that same year Ethnologue merged them as a single language.

References

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

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