Bauchi (language)

Bauchi
Spoken in	Nigeria (State of Niger )
speaker	20,000 (1988)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic Congo Benue Congo Kainji West Kainji Central Basa-kamuku Pongu; ; ; ; ; ; Bauchi (language) ;
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

Ethnologue

Individual evidence

↑ bsf
↑ (1988 R. Blench)
↑ Ethnologue

[1] sf

[2] (1988 R. Blench)

[3] Ethnologue