Mwaghavul language
Mwaghavul | |
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Sura | |
Mupun | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | 300,000 (1993)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
sur |
Glottolog |
mwag1236 [2] |
Mwaghavul (also known as Mupun and Sura) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects are Mupun and Panyam.[1]
Mwaghavul has one of the most elaborate systems of logophoricity known in any language (see).
References
- 1 2 Mwaghavul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mwaghavul". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Further reading
- Roger Blench, Mwaghavul - English dictionary, unpublished.
- Zygmunt Frajzyngier. 1993. A Grammar of Mupun. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
External links
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