North Bauchi languages

North Bauchi languages
Not to be confused with Bauchi language.
North Bauchi
Warji, West Chadic B.2
Geographic
distribution:		 Nigeria
Linguistic classification: Afro-Asiatic
Subdivisions:
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The North Bauchi or Warji languages, group B.2 of the West Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, are spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria. The Ajawa language is extinct and Siri is highly endangered.[1]

Pa'a is divergent.

Languages

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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