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अस्खलित बोलणाऱ्यामूळ भाषकांची संख्या

<4,000

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Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages
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अस्खलित बोलणाऱ्यामूळ भाषकांची संख्या

<4,000

वापर होत असलेले क्षेत्र

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भाषक संख्या कल

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Transmission

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भाषक

द्वितीय भाषा बोलणाऱ्यांची आणि शिकणाऱ्यांची संख्या

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सेमी-स्पीकर्स (अर्ध-भाषक)

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मुले

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तरुण प्रौढ

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वयस्क प्रौढ

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म्हाताऱ्या व्यक्ती

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वांशिक लोकसंख्या

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Non-monolingual speakers

Most

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Year of info

1999

Location and Context

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Ningeshen Kurmi village, Kaduna State, Nigeria

अक्षांश-रेखांशाचे निर्देशक (कोऑर्डिनेट्स)

10.234350, 7.866383

ठिकाणांचा तपशील

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शासनाचा पाठिंबा

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संस्थांचा पाठिंबा

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भाषक मनोवृत्ती

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Standard orthography

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हस्तलेखन (लेखन पद्धती)

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स्पर्धक लेखनपद्धती (ऑर्थोग्राफिज्)

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लेखनपद्धती (ऑर्थोग्राफी) बद्दल अधिक माहिती

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समुदायाकडून वापरल्या जाणाऱ्या इतर भाषा

Numana; Gwantu; Hausa; English

Domains of other languages

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"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

अस्खलित बोलणाऱ्यामूळ भाषकांची संख्या

4,000-5,000

वापर होत असलेले क्षेत्र

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भाषक संख्या कल

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Transmission

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भाषक

द्वितीय भाषा बोलणाऱ्यांची आणि शिकणाऱ्यांची संख्या

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सेमी-स्पीकर्स (अर्ध-भाषक)

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मुले

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तरुण प्रौढ

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वयस्क प्रौढ

No data

म्हाताऱ्या व्यक्ती

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वांशिक लोकसंख्या

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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

अक्षांश-रेखांशाचे निर्देशक (कोऑर्डिनेट्स)

9.222418, 8.586137

ठिकाणांचा तपशील

"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."

शासनाचा पाठिंबा

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संस्थांचा पाठिंबा

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भाषक मनोवृत्ती

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Standard orthography

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हस्तलेखन (लेखन पद्धती)

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स्पर्धक लेखनपद्धती (ऑर्थोग्राफिज्)

"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."

लेखनपद्धती (ऑर्थोग्राफी) बद्दल अधिक माहिती

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समुदायाकडून वापरल्या जाणाऱ्या इतर भाषा

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."