Yangkam
Yankam; Basharawa; Bashiri; Bashar;
Niger-Congo; Atlantic-Congo; Benue-Congo; Plateau
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2007
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"The Yangkam people live in a region west of Bashar town, on the Amper-Bashar road, in Plateau State, Central Nigeria. [...] Yangkam is spoken in some four villages, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam and Kiram."
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"The Yangkam people live in a region west of Bashar town, on the Amper-Bashar road, in Plateau State, Central Nigeria. [...] Yangkam is spoken in some four villages, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam and Kiram."
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"Speakers are quite content with the switch to Hausa. [...] Members of the ethnic group are very proud of their history and identity, but do not associate them with retention of the language."
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"Yangkam is only spoken by people over fifty and all the young people speak Hausa."
2011
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Plateau State, Nigeria
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"The Yangkam people live in a region west of Bashar town, on the Amper-Bashar road, in Plateau State, Central Nigeria [...] Yangkam is spoken in some four villages, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam and Kiram"
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"The Yangkam people live in a region west of Bashar town, on the Amper-Bashar road, in Plateau State, Central Nigeria [...] Yangkam is spoken in some four villages, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam and Kiram"
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"Yangkam is something of a paradox; members of the ethnic group are very proud of their history and identity, but do not associate that with retention of the language... A typescript of the history of Bashar circulates in the district, larded with non-Hausa names and words but Yangkam do not draw the conclusion that there is any link between this identity and the language they formerly spoke. Although Yangkam has nearly disappeared as a language, the populations who formerly spoke it are likely to retain Basherawa and Basheranci as their name for the people and language as long as they retain a separate identity."
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2015
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"Plateau state: Kanam, Langtang, and Wase LGAs, on Amper-Bashar road, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam, and Kiram villages."
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"Plateau state: Kanam, Langtang, and Wase LGAs, on Amper-Bashar road, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam, and Kiram villages."
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"Shifted to Hausa [hau], but retain Bashar identity."
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- An Atlas of Nigerian LanguagesRoger Blench. 2011. "An Atlas of Nigerian Languages." Mallam Dendo. Online: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%%20of%%20Nigerian%%20Languages-%%20ed%%20III.pdf.http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Africa/Nigeria/Atlas%%20of%%20Nigerian%%20Languages-%%20ed%%20III.pdf
- The Yangkam language of Central Nigeria and its affinitiesRoger Blench, Ruth Adiwu and Gideon Asukutu. 2006. "The Yangkam Language of Central Nigeria and Its Affinities." Online: http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/BC/Plateau/Tarokoid/Yangkam%%20wordlist.pdf.http://www.rogerblench.info/Language/Niger-Congo/BC/Plateau/Tarokoid/Yangkam%%20wordlist.pdf
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