Ut-Ma'in
| ut-Ma'in (Fakanchi, Gelanchi) | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria ( Fakai District ) | |
| speaker | 36,000 (1992) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
gel |
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The language Kag-Fer-Jiir-Koor-Ror-Us-Zuksun (ISO 639-3: gel; also ət-Ma'in, ut-Ma'in, fakai, fakanchi, fakanci, fakkanci, gelanchi) is a platoid language from the language group of the western Kainji languages , which is spoken by a total of 36,000 people from the Fakachi ethnic group in the Nigerian state of Kebbi .
There are numerous different dialects within the language, including kag (puku, fakanchi, et-kag), jiir (gelanchi, et-jiir), kur (kere, kar, keri-ni, kelli-ni, kelanchi, kelinci), zuksun (zussun, et-zuksun), ror (et-maror, tudanchi, er-gwar), fer (fere, et-fer, wipsi-ni, kukum), us (et-us) and koor (kulu). Ror and kag are dialects not recognized by the government, and the koor is the least spoken. Most speakers move on to teaching their children English or Hausa as their mother tongue. The language is now called ut-Ma'in.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ gel
- ↑ (1992 SIL)
- ↑ Ethnologue