Hõne language
(Redirected from Hone language)
| Hõne | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Gombe State and Taraba State |
Native speakers | (7,000 cited 1999)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | juh |
| Glottolog | hone1235 |
| ELP | Hõne |
Hõne is a Jukunoid language[2] spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria.[3] Speakers of the two dialects, Pindiga and Gwana, can only understand each other with difficulty.[1] It belongs to the Jukun Wapan (Kororofa) language cluster.[4]
Distribution
[edit source]Hõne is spoken in Akko, Billiri, Shongom, and Karim-Lamido LGAs. Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists villages as:
- Futuk, Kaltanga, Kashere, Pindiga, and Tumu villages (Pindiga dialect)
- Andamin, Digare, Dizi, Gobirawa, Gwana, Jukon, Kasan Dare, Katagum, Konan Kuka, and Kwaya villages (Gwana dialect)
References
[edit source]- 1 2 Hõne at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Hõne". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Adelberger, Jörg; Blench, Roger (2026). "The peopling of the Muri Mountains, Northern Nigeria: evidence from linguistics and ethnography". AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. doi:10.18716/OJS/AAEO/2026_12031.
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.