Rukul
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Classification
Niger-Congo; Atlantic-Congo; Benue-Congo; Plateau
Orthography
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Language code (LINGUIST List)
mae-ruk
Variants & Dialects
Hausa
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Overview
Endangered
Native Speakers Worldwide
500-1,000
Domains of Use
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Language Information By Source
Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages
Endangered
Native Speakers Worldwide
500-1,000
Domains of Use
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Ethnic Population
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Non-monolingual speakers
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Year of info
1999
Location and Context
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Location description
Barkul village, Plateau State, Nigeria
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Standard orthography
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Script (Writing system)
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Other writing systems
Barkul village, Plateau State, Nigeria
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Other languages used
Hausa
Domains of other languages
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More on context
"All the other villages in this area speak varieties of Kulere, a Chadic language. [...] Hausa is widespread and eliciting the wordlist suggested that younger speakers had a tendency to replace some items with their Hausa equivalent."
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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."
- Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languagesBlench, 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
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