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A Grammatical Outline of Gùrdùŋ/Gùrùntùm (Southern Bauchi, Nigeria)
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Ethnic Population

~21,200

Non-monolingual speakers

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"Community Tax Book of 1978/79 estimates the number of Gurdung in the LGA at 10,600 [...] recent research has revealed that the number is twice as many."

Year of info

2003

Location and Context

Countries

Nigeria

Coordinates

9.900878, 9.765803; 10.078389, 10.493463

Location description

"The majority of Gurdung speakers live in several villages in the Paali and Duguri districts of the Alkaaleeri Local Government Area of Bauchi State."

Government support

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Institutional support

Fauwala (Gurdung association)

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"The majority of Gurdung speakers live in several villages in the Paali and Duguri districts of the Alkaaleeri Local Government Area of Bauchi State."

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Other languages used

Hausa, English

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"Today, no Gurdung person is monolingual. The older people speak Gurdung, Hausa, and usually at least another third language [...] Nowadays, more and more young people are abandoning the language and are becoming to some extent bilingual in Hausa and English."

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Native Speakers Worldwide

10000

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More about speakers

"10,000 (1988 Jaggar)"

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Bauchi State, Nigeria

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Location description

"Bauchi State, Bauchi and Alkaleri LGAs"

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Other writing systems

"Bauchi State, Bauchi and Alkaleri LGAs"

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

15,000

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

9.7415,10.4534

Location description

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

15,000

Domains of Use

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Nigeria;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~10,000

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

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Year of info

1988

Location and Context

Countries

Nigeria

Coordinates

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Location description

"Pali and Duguri districts of the Alkaleri Local Government Area in the south-eastern part of Bauchi State, Nigeria."

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

"Pali and Duguri districts of the Alkaleri Local Government Area in the south-eastern part of Bauchi State, Nigeria."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Hausa

Domains of other languages

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More on context

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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

15,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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