Ron language

Ron (Run; also known as Challa, Chala) is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects include Bokkos, Daffo-Mbar-Butura (incl. Mangar), Monguna/Manguna (Shagau), (20,000 speakers). Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages.

Blench (2019) lists these language varieties in the Ron (Run) cluster:

• Bokkos
• Mbar
• Daffo–Butura
• Manguna(Shagau)
• Mangar
• Sha
• Butura

Daffo-Mbar-Butura is spoken in Hottom, Maiduna, Hurum, Fanga, Kandik, Faram, Mandung, Mayi, and Josho villages.

Manguna (Shagau) is spoken in Manguna, Mahurum, Hurti, Gwande, Dambwash and Karfa

Although modern Ron uses a decimal system, it is well attested that in the past a duodecimal counting system was used.

• Uwe Seibert. 1998. Das ron von Daffo (Jos-Plateau, zentralnigeria): Morphologische, syntaktische und textlinguistische strukturen einer westtschadischen sprache. European University Series, Asian and African Studies 27. Berlin: Peter Lang.

• Roger Blench, Ron Comparative Wordlist
• Roger Blench, Dictionary of Lis ma Run (Ron of Bokkos)