Ngas language
| Ngas | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | 400,000 (1998)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
anc |
| Glottolog |
ngas1240[2] |
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Ethnic territories (tan) of the Ngas-speaking people (Angas) in Nigeria | |
Ngas, or Angas, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects are Hill Angas and Plain Angas.[1] Retired General Yakubu Gowon is a prominent Nigerian who is of Ngas extraction.
Notes
- 1 2 Ngas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Ngas". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Further reading
- Donald A. Burquest. 1971. A Preliminary Study of Angas Phonology. Zaria: Institute of Linguistics.
- Donald A. Burquest. 1973. "A Grammar of Angas," University of California at Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
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