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Requested move 25 September 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) veko. (user | talk | contribs) he/him 18:10, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

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Tyap people → Atyap – The page has been boldly moved from Atyap people to Atyap, and then to Tyap people. The WP:COMMONNAME appears to be "Atyap", see for example the references in the article. For "Tyap people", a Google Books search returns only 3 results, while "Atyap" returns many results. A mass noun like Navajo or Atyap is acceptable per WP:ETHNICGROUP, and "people" only needs to be added if there is need for disambiguation. Here there is none, since Atyap redirects here. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 00:03, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Pinging @Kwamikagami @Kambai Akau. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 00:04, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks @Jähmefyysikko. The term "Atyap" is more more appropriate for the people/ethnicity and the country of the people, while the the term "Tyap" is reserved for the language only. This is the endonymic usage as well as the English official usage within Nigeria as explained in this discussion. Warm regards, Kambai Akau (talk) 13:01, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

• Move to Atyap per nom, seems like Atyap is the much more WP:COMMONNAME. Also, from the Ngram viewer, it seems that Tyap has been steadily declining in favor of Atyap after the spike in the 80s. Not too familiar with the subject, but perhaps it would be appropriate to make a note in the article saying that Tyap was historically a common term (if sources reveal this). PersusjCP (talk) 01:26, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

  Tyap is the language spoken by the Atyap, so those Ngrams for "Tyap" mostly do not refer to the people. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 01:39, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

  I see, in that case, it only further advances the case that Atyap refers to the people. PersusjCP (talk) 01:42, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

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