Karekare language
Karekare | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Bauchi State, Yobe State |
Native speakers | 150,000 (1993)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
kai |
Glottolog |
kare1348 [2] |
Ethnic territories (pink) of the Karekare-speaking people (Kare) in Nigeria |
Karekare (also known as Karaikarai, Karai Karai, Kerekere, Kerrikerri) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State and Yobe State, Nigeria. Dialects include Birkai, Jalalam, and Kwarta Mataci.[1]
Notes
- 1 2 Karekare at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Karekare". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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