Nyifon language

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Nyifon
Iordaa
Native toNigeria
RegionBuruku LGA, Benue State
Native speakers
(1,000 cited 1990s)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottolognyif1234

Nyifon (Iordaa) is a poorly known Jukunoid language[2] of Buruku LGA, Benue State, Nigeria. There may have been about 1,000 speakers in the 1990s.[1] The language is not reported in Ethnologue. Glottolog lists it as a dialect of Wapan language.

References

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  1. ^ a b Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyifon". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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