Ngizim language

Ngizim language
Ngizim
Spoken in Nigeria
Region Yobe State
Native speakers 80,000  (1993)
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ngi

Ngizim (also known as Ngizmawa, Ngezzim) is an Chadic language spoken by the Ngizim people in Yobe State, Nigeria.[1]

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Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

References

Further reading

  • Mohammed Alhaji Adamu, Usman Babayo Garba Potiskum, 2009, Ngizim–English–Hausa Dictionary, Yobe Language Research Project.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1972. "Aspects of Ngizim Syntax," University of California, Los Angeles PhD dissertation.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1977. "Bade/Ngizim determiner system," Afroasiatic Linguistics 4:1-74.
  • Russell G. Schuh. 1981. A Dictionary of Ngizim. University of California Publications in Linguistics 99. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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