Gamo-Ningi language

Gamo-Ningi
tì-Gamo
Native toNigeria
RegionNingi, Bauchi State
Ethnicity15,000 (1992)
Extinct1980s
Language codes
ISO 639-3bte
Glottologgamo1241
Gamo
Persondòò-Gamo
Peopleà-ndi-Gamo
Languagetì-Gamo

Gamo and Ningi are a Kainji dialect cluster of Nigeria. Most of the 15,000 Gamo-Ningi spoke Hausa. The Gamo dialect is also known as à-ndi-Gamo, Ba-Buche, Ba-Mbutu, Buta, Butancii, Butawa, Butu, Mbotu, Mbuta, or tì-Gamo.

The dialect cluster was spoken in Ningi, Bauchi State. It has no known L1 speakers, the last known speaker having died in the 1980s; speakers have since shifted to Hausa.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Gamo-Ningi at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.