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 toNigeria
RegionPlateau State
Native speakers
3,000 (1998)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3scw
Glottologshaa1247
ELPSha[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

  1. Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Sha.
  3. "Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  4. 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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