Sha language
Sha is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State and Kaduna State, Nigeria.[1] As of 2018, the language is in use for face-to-face communication and has no standardized written form. The language is spoken by roughly 1000 people and is sustainable.[3]
| Sha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | 3,000 (1998)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | scw |
| Glottolog | shaa1247 |
| ELP | Sha[2] |
The main area of Sha is in Sha District, Bokkos LGA, Plateau State. Mundat, a closely related language also belonging to the Chadic A.4 branch, is spoken in Mundat village of the same district.[4]
Notes
- Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Sha.
- "Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
- Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
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