Yang came
| Yankam (Bashar) | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Nigeria (State of Plateau ) | |
| speaker | 100 (1996) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo |
|
The language Yangkam (ISO 639-3: bsx; also bashar, basharawa, bashiri, yankam) is an almost extinct tarocoid language that is spoken by only 100 mostly elderly people in four localities in the Nigerian state of Plateau : Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam and Kiram along the Amper-Bashar road.
The language is related to Pe [pai], which, together with two other languages, forms the language group of the tarocoid languages. The members of the Yangkam ethnic group today mostly speak English , the official language of Nigeria, as their mother tongue, but they still emphasize their identity as Bashar. Some can also use Hausa as a second language. The language is therefore threatened with extinction.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ bsx
- ↑ (1996 R. Blench)
- ↑ Ethnologue