Mwaghavul language

Mwaghavul
Sura
Mupun
Native to Nigeria
Region Plateau State
Native speakers
300,000 (1993)[1]
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. 1 2 Mwaghavul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mwaghavul". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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