Hõne language

Hõne
Hõne
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Gombe State and Taraba State
Native speakers	(7,000 cited 1999)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Jukunoid Central Jukun Hõne; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Pindiga; Gwana;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	juh
Glottolog	hone1235
ELP	Hõne

Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria. Speakers of the two dialects, Pindiga and Gwana, can only understand each other with difficulty. It belongs to the Jukun Wapan (Kororofa) language cluster.

Distribution

Hõne is spoken in Akko, Billiri, Shongom, and Karim-Lamido LGAs. Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists villages as:

Futuk, Kaltanga, Kashere, Pindiga, and Tumu villages (Pindiga dialect)
Andamin, Digare, Dizi, Gobirawa, Gwana, Jukon, Kasan Dare, Katagum, Konan Kuka, and Kwaya villages (Gwana dialect)

References

1 2 Hõne at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Hõne". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Adelberger, Jörg; Blench, Roger (2026). "The peopling of the Muri Mountains, Northern Nigeria: evidence from linguistics and ethnography". AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. doi:10.18716/OJS/AAEO/2026_12031.
↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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[e18-1] 1 2 Hõne at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Hõne". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[Muri-3] Adelberger, Jörg; Blench, Roger (2026). "The peopling of the Muri Mountains, Northern Nigeria: evidence from linguistics and ethnography". AAeO - Afrikanistik-Aegyptologie-Online. doi:10.18716/OJS/AAEO/2026_12031.

[BlenchAtlas4-4] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.