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Native Speakers Worldwide

<4,000

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Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<4,000

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Most

More about speakers

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Year of info

1999

Location and Context

Countries

Ningeshen Kurmi village, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Coordinates

10.234350, 7.866383

Location description

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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

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Other languages used

Numana; Gwantu; Hausa; English

Domains of other languages

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More on context

"The Ningye are multilingual; Numana and Gwantu are the main additional languages they speak, but Hausa is widely known and some younger people also speak English."

Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

4,000-5,000

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Most

More about speakers

"The Ningye language is spoken by perhaps 4-5000 speakers at a maximum. Nonetheless, the language does not seem unduly threatened; during the language elicitation session it seemed that many of the children present were able to produce the required lexical items simultaneously with the adults."

Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Nigeria

Coordinates

9.222418, 8.586137

Location description

"The main village of the Ningye is Ningeshen Kurmi, some 19 km. south of Fadan Karshi on the Akwanga road. There are three other settlements, Akwankwan, Kobin and Ningeshen Dutse due north of Ningeshen Kurmi but these are all small."

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Other writing systems

"The main village of the Ningye is Ningeshen Kurmi, some 19 km. south of Fadan Karshi on the Akwanga road. There are three other settlements, Akwankwan, Kobin and Ningeshen Dutse due north of Ningeshen Kurmi but these are all small."

More on writing systems

No data

Other languages used

Numana, Gwantu, Hausa, English

Domains of other languages

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More on context

"The Ningye are multilingual; Numana and Gwantu are the main languages they speak, but Hausa is widely known and some younger people also speak English."

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  1. 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
    2012. "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."
  2. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages
    Blench, R. (1999). Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios Newsletter, 11-14.
    http://www.ogmios.org/ogmios/Ogmios_011.pdf
  3. The Ningye Language of Central Nigeria and its Affinities
    Blench, Roger. 2006. "The Ningye Language of Central Nigeria and Its Affinities."