Berom language

Berom
Birom
Native to Nigeria
Region Plateau State
Ethnicity Berom people
Native speakers
1 million (2010)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 bom
Glottolog bero1242[2]

Berom (Birom) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. Although locally numerically important, the Berom are shifting to Hausa.

The small Cen and Nincut dialects may be separate languages.

References

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