Lufu (language)
| Lufu | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria ( Taraba ) | |
| speaker | 3,200 (2006) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Jukunoid languages (controversial)
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
- |
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| ISO 639-3 |
ldq |
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The Lufu language is an isolated Nigerian language that is only spoken by a few older adults from the Lufu people in the Takum Local Government Authority in the state of Taraba State .
Most of their spokespeople went over to adopting English , the official language of Nigeria. But some can also do the jukun . It is reported that the language is more closely related to Prete and Bibi . According to the Vienna Yukuben Project, Lufu and Bete are southern jukunoid languages from the platoid group of the Niger-Congo language family .
literature
- Crozier, David H. and Roger M. Blench , editors. 1992. An index of Nigerian languages . Abuja, Nigeria and Dallas: Nigerian Language Development Center, Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, University of Ilorin, and Summer Institute of Linguistics .
Web links
- Ethnologue: Lufu
Individual evidence
- ↑ Yukuben Project ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
