Berom
| Berom | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nigeria | |
| speaker | 300,000 (1993) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bom |
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The Berom language (ISO code bom , also referred to as afango , berum , birom , cen berom , chenberom , gbang , kibbo , kibbun , kibo , kibyen, and shosho ) is a platoid language spoken by about 300,000 people in the Nigerian state of Plateau and is spoken in parts of Kaduna (dialect nincut) and Bauchi .
Berom was once classified as belonging to the southern subgroup of the plateau languages , and now forms a special subgroup of the Beromic languages with two other languages, the Eten [etx] and the Schall-Zwall [sha], both from Nigeria.
There are several dialects of the language, namely gyell-kuru-vwang (ngell-kuru-vwang), fan-foron-heikpang, bachit-gashish, du-ropp-rim, hoss, cen (2,000 speakers) and nincut (aboro, boro-aboro; 5,000 speakers in 8 villages). The language itself suffers from being marginalized by the official English language, which is the only language of instruction in the whole country.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bom
- ↑ (1993 SIL) Ethnologue