Bauchi (language)

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Bauchi

Spoken in

Nigeria (State of Niger )
speaker 20,000 (1988)
Linguistic
classification

Niger-Congo

Language codes
ISO 639-3

bsf

The Bauchi language (ISO 639-3: bsf; also bauci , baushi , kushi ) is a platoid language from the group of Kainji languages , which is spoken by a total of 20,000 people in the Nigerian state of Niger in the local government areas of Rafi and Shiroro .

The Bauchi, together with the Gurmana [gvm] language, forms the Baushi-Gurmana subgroup within the West Kainji languages. Bauchi has three dialects: wayam-rubu, madaka (adeka) and supana.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. bsf
  2. (1988 R. Blench)
  3. Ethnologue