Ngas language
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| Ngas | |
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| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
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Native speakers
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unknown (400,000 cited 1998)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | anc |
| Glottolog | ngas1240[2] |
Ethnic territories (tan) of the Ngas-speaking people (Angas) in Nigeria
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Ngas, or Angas, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects are Hill Angas and Plain Angas.[1] Retired General Yakubu Gowon is a prominent Nigerian who is of Ngas extraction.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ngas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Further reading
- Donald A. Burquest. 1971. A Preliminary Study of Angas Phonology. Zaria: Institute of Linguistics.
- Donald A. Burquest. 1973. "A Grammar of Angas," University of California at Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
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