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Recent Fieldwork in Nigeria: Report on Horom and Tapshin
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Vulnerable

Native Speakers Worldwide

<1,500

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Year of info

1998

Location and Context

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Horom village in Bokkos district of Plateau State, Nigeria

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Other languages used

Kulere, Rindre, Hausa, English

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"The Horom people are extremely multilingual; they reported fluency in Kulere, Rindre (a Plateau language spoken at the bottom of the escarpment), Hausa and several speakers of English also live in the village."

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1000

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"500 (1973 SIL); 1000 (Blench 1998)"

Year of info

2011

Location and Context

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Plateau State, Nigeria

Coordinates

9.486, 9.14

Location description

"Plateau State, Mangu LGA. One village and one hamlet"

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"Plateau State, Mangu LGA. One village and one hamlet"

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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
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  2. Recent Fieldwork in Nigeria: Report on Horom and Tapshin
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    Blench, Roger. 2006. "The Horom Language of Central Nigeria and Its Affinities."
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    Kay Williamson. 1973. "Benue-Congo Comparative Wordlist." II: University of Ibadan, Nigeria: West African Linguistic Society.