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    Lere language

    Topic: Social

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    Short description: Endangered Kainji dialect cluster of Nigeria
    Lere
    Native toNigeria
    RegionPlateau State, Bauchi State
    Ethnicity16,000 (2000)[1]
    Extinct2018e25
    Niger–Congo
    Dialects
    • Si
    • Gana
    • Takaya (Taura)
    Language codes
    ISO 639-3gnh
    Glottologlere1241[2]

    Lere is an extinct Kainji dialect cluster of Nigeria. The ethnic population was cited as 16,000 in 2000, of whom only a few speak the language. A wordlist from the Takaya dialect can be found under External links.

    Dialects

    Dialects are:[3]

    • Si (Rishuwa, Kuzamani)
    • Gana
    • Takaya (Taura)

    References

    1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named e25
    2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Lere". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/lere1241. 
    3. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 

    Further reading

    • Blench, Roger (2004), "The Status of the East Kainji Languages of Central Nigeria: Recent Research", in Gerhardt, Ludwig, Mallam Dendo 
    • Blench, Roger (2014), "Nominal Affixing in the Kainji Languages of Northwestern and Central Nigeria", in Watters, John, Kay Williamson Educational Foundation 

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