Agatu
| Agatu | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Benue , Nassarawa (Central Nigeria) | |
| speaker | 70,000 (in 1987) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
agc |
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The Agatu language (also called Northern Idoma , Northern Idoma or ochekwu ; ISO 639-3 is agc) is an idomoid language spoken by over 70,000 people in the states of Benue and Nassarawa in Nigeria .
Agatu belongs to the group of Idoma languages within the West Benue Congo languages together with the languages Alago [ala], Idoma [idu], Igede [ige] and Yala [yba].
In 1984 the New Testament was published in Agatu.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ agc
- ↑ (1987 UBS)
- ↑ Ethnologue