Sha language
| Sha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | (3,000 cited 1998)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | scw |
| Glottolog | shaa1247 |
| ELP | Sha |
Sha is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State and Kaduna State, Nigeria.[1] As of 2018, the language is used for face-to-face communication and lacks a standardized written form. It is spoken by approximately 1000 people and is considered sustainable.[2]
The primary area where Sha is spoken is in Sha District, Bokkos LGA, Plateau State. Mundat, a closely related language also belonging to the Chadic A.4 branch, is spoken in Mundat village within the same district.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ^ Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
| Official languages | |
|---|---|
| National languages | |
| Recognised languages | |
| Indigenous languages | |
| Sign languages | |
| Immigrant languages | |
| Scripts | |
| Hausa– Gwandara (A.1) | |||||||
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| Bole– Tangale (A.2) |
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| Angas (A.3) | |||||||
| Ron (A.4) | |||||||
| Bade (B.1) | |||||||
| North Bauchi (Warji) (B.2) | |||||||
| South Bauchi (Barawa) (B.3) |
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| Others | |||||||
Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages | |||||||
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