Berom language

Berom
	Birom
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Ethnicity	Berom people
Native speakers	1 million (2010)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Plateau Beromic Berom; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bom
Glottolog	bero1242[2]

Berom (Birom) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. The language is locally numerically important and is consistently spoken by Berom of all ages in rural areas. However, the Berom are shifting to Hausa in cities.^[3]

The small Cen and Nincut dialects may be separate languages.

References

↑ Berom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Berom". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ "Berom". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-24.

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[e18-1] Berom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Berom". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] "Berom". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-07-24.