Gwari language
| Gwari | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Niger State, Nassarawa State |
| Ethnicity | Ebira people |
Native speakers |
(700,000 Gbagyi cited 1991)[1] 350,000 Gbari (2002) |
|
Niger–Congo
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
Either: gbr – Gbagyi gby – Gbari |
| Glottolog |
gbag1256[2] |
Gwari is a Nupoid language spoken by over a million people in Nigeria. There are two principal varieties, Gbari (West Gwari) and Gbagyi (East Gwari), which have some difficulty in communication; sociolinguistically they are distinct languages.
References
- ↑ Gbagyi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Gbari at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Gbagyi–Gbari". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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