Pongu

Pongu
Spoken in	Nigeria ( Niger State )
speaker	about 30,000
Linguistic classification	Niger-Congo Atlantic – Congo Volta – Congo Benue – Congo Kainji West Kainji Central Basa-Kamuku Kamuku Pongu
Language codes
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Pongu is a platoid language in Nigeria .

It is a Kaijni language from the Niger-Congo language family .

The number of speakers is decreasing as the speakers tend to speak English as their mother tongue, as English is much more prestigious as an official language.

literature

• Dettweiler, Stephen and Sonia Dettweiler (2002) 'Sociolinguistic survey of the Pongu people', SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-040

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (2003 SIL)