Hwana language

Hwana language

language
name=Hwana
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Nigeria
region=Adamawa State
speakers=32,000 (1992)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Chadic
fam3=Biu-Mandara
fam4=A
fam5=A.1
fam6=Eastern
iso3=hwo

Hwana (also known as Hwona, Hona, Tuftera, Fiterya) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Adamawa State, Nigeria. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hwo Ethnologue entry for Hwana]

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