Ningye language
Ningye is a Plateau language of Nigeria.
| Ningye | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Kaduna state |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2008)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nns Deprecated, merged into Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu nbr effective 2019-01-25 |
| Glottolog | ning1271 |
| ELP | Ningye |
Ningye is spoken by 3,000 to 4,000 people in Ningeshen Kurmi village, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The village is situated about 19 kilometers south of Fadan Karshi on the Akwanga road.[2]
Ethnologue considers it as a dialect of Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu.[3]
References
- Ningye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.
- Numana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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