Bauchi (language)
Bauchi | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria (State of Niger ) | |
speaker | 20,000 (1988) | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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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.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ bsf
- ↑ (1988 R. Blench)
- ↑ Ethnologue