Hyam
Hyam (Jabba) | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria ( Kaduna State ) | |
speaker | 100,000 (1994) | |
Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
jab |
The language Hyam (also ham, hyamhum, jabba, jeba; ISO 639-3: jab) is a regionally important platoid language from the group of plateau languages , which is spoken by a total of 100,000 people in the Nigerian state of Kaduna .
The language is closely related to several neighboring languages: Together with the languages Cori [cry], Kagoma [kdm], Schamang [xsh] and Zhire [zhi] it forms the subgroup of the Hyamic languages.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ jab
- ↑ (1994 UBS)
- ↑ Ethnologue