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Sha
Native to Nigeria
Region Plateau State
Native speakers
(3,000 cited 1998) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 scw
Glottolog shaa1247
ELP Sha

Sha is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State and Kaduna State, Nigeria. [1] As of 2018, the language is used for face-to-face communication and lacks a standardized written form. It is spoken by approximately 1000 people and is considered sustainable. [2]

The primary area where Sha is spoken is in Sha District, Bokkos LGA, Plateau State. Mundat, a closely related language also belonging to the Chadic A.4 branch, is spoken in Mundat village within the same district. [3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Sha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Sha". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  3. ^ 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.