- Ga'anda language
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Ga'anda Spoken in Nigeria Region Adamawa State Native speakers 43,000 (1992) Language family Afro-Asiatic- Chadic
- Biu–Mandara
- A
- Tera–Ga'anda
- Ga'anda
- Ga'anda
- Ga'anda
- Tera–Ga'anda
- A
- Biu–Mandara
Language codes ISO 639-3 gqa Ga'anda (also known as Ganda, Ga'andu, Mokar, Makwar) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 10,000 people in the Adamawa state of Nigeria. Some speakers live in the Song, Gyuk, Mubi, and Biu (Borno State) LGAs. It has 2 dialects, Ga'anda and Gabin. Its speakers are generally not monolingual in Ga'anda, instead, they use Hausa and Fulfulde as well. They are becoming more interested in education; Ga'anda has a secondary school. The traditional religions of the people are Christian and Muslim.[1]
Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
- Ethnologue entry for Ga'anda
- World Atlas of Language Structures entry for Ga'anda
- Roxana Ma Newman. 1971. "A Case Grammar of Ga'anda," University of California at Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
External links
Categories:- Biu-Mandara languages
- Languages of Nigeria
- Biu-Mandara language stubs
- Nigeria stubs
- Chadic
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