Dass language

Dass
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State, Plateau State
Native speakers
(8,800 cited 1971 census)
Dialects
  • Lukshi
  • Durr-Baraza
  • Zumbul
  • Wandi
  • Dot
Language codes
ISO 639-3dot
Glottologdass1243
ELPDass

Dass (also known as Barawa) is an Afro-Asiatic dialect cluster spoken in Bauchi State and Plateau State, Nigeria.

Varieties

Blench (2019) lists varieties as belonging to the Dass cluster:

References

  1. 1 2 Dass at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.