Batu (language)
Batu (Afi) | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria | |
speaker | 25,000 | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
btu |
The Batu language (ISO 639-3: btu) is a tivoid language from the bantoid language group , which is spoken by a total of 25,000 people in several locations in the Nigerian state of Taraba in the local government area of Sardauna .
The Batu has three dialects, these are amanda-afi, angwe and kamino. The language belongs to the Niger-Congo language family and is related to Tiv .