Batu (language)

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Batu (Afi)

Spoken in

Nigeria
speaker 25,000
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. btu
  2. Ethnologue