Geruma language

Geruma
Native to Nigeria
Region Bauchi State
Native speakers
9,000 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gea
Glottolog geru1240[2]

Geruma (also known as Gerema, Germa) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. Dialects include Duurum and Sum. Speakers are shifting to Hausa.[1]

Notes

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


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