Ron language

Ron
Ron
Native toNigeria
RegionPlateau State
Native speakers
230,000 (2020)
Dialects
  • Bokkos
  • Mbar
  • Daffo-Butura
  • Shagawu
  • Maleni
  • Manguna
  • Nafunfia
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3cla
Glottologronn1241  Ron
mang1417  Mangar
Butura dancers during the Nawhai Festival in Bokkos.

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.

Varieties

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

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

Curiosity

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

Notes

  1. 1 2 Ron at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
  3. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  4. ↑ Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  5. ↑ Dr. Uwe Seibert, Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Jos, Nigeria, March 1, 1999: Ron Numerals

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