Hyam

Hyam (Jabba)
Spoken in	Nigeria ( Kaduna State )
speaker	100,000 (1994)
Linguistic ; classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Benue – Congo plateau Central plateau languages Hyamic languages; ; ; ; Hyam ;
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

Ethnologue

Individual evidence

↑ jab
↑ (1994 UBS)
↑ Ethnologue

[1] ↑ jab

[2] (1994 UBS)

[3] Ethnologue