Nyankpa language

Nyankpa
Yeskwa
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State, Nassarawa State
Native speakers
70,000 (2012)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yes
Glottolog yesk1239[2]
Nyankpa
Person òŋamkpa
People àŋamkpa
Language nyankpá

Nyankpa, or Yeskwa, is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It sometimes appears in the literature as Nyenkpa, which is a dialect.

The main dialects are Panda, Tattara, Bede and Gitata (Buzi). The prestige dialect is Tattara, which is said to be the "standard form" of the language.[3]

References

  1. Nyankpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Yeskwa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Roger Blench (20 May 2009). "The Nyankpa [= Yeskwa] language of Central Nigeria" (PDF). p. 1.


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