Afro-Asiatic dialect cluster of Nigeria
Dass (also known as Barawa) is an Afro-Asiatic dialect cluster spoken in Bauchi State and Plateau State, Nigeria.[1]
Varieties
Blench (2019) lists varieties as belonging to the Dass cluster:[2]
- Durr–Baraza
- Zumbul
- Wandi
- Dot
References
- ^ a b Dass at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
| Official languages | |
|---|---|
| National languages | |
| Recognised languages | |
| Indigenous languages | |
| Sign languages | |
| Immigrant languages | |
| Scripts | |
| Hausa– Gwandara (A.1) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bole– Tangale (A.2) |
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| Angas (A.3) | |||||||
| Ron (A.4) | |||||||
| Bade (B.1) | |||||||
| North Bauchi (Warji) (B.2) | |||||||
| South Bauchi (Barawa) (B.3) |
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| Others | |||||||
Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages | |||||||