Sha language
| Sha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | (3,000 cited 1998)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | scw |
| Glottolog | shaa1247 |
| ELP | Sha |
Sha,[2] also spelled Sya,[3] is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State and Kaduna State, Nigeria.[1] As of 2018, the language is used for face-to-face communication and lacks a standardized written form. It is spoken by approximately 1,000 people and is considered sustainable.[4]
The primary area where Sha is spoken is in Sha District, Bokkos LGA, Plateau State. Mundat, a closely related language also belonging to the Chadic A.4 branch, is spoken in Mundat village within the same district.[5]
Notes
[edit]- 1 2 Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ "639 Identifier Documentation: scw". iso639-3.sil.org. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ "Sya language resources | Joshua Project". Joshua Project. Retrieved 13 May 2026.
- ↑ "Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- ↑ Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic Archived 2023-03-20 at the Wayback Machine. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
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