Cakfem-Mushere language

Cakfem-Mushere
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	(5,000 cited 1990)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Angas (A.3) Cakfem-Mushere; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cky
Glottolog	cakf1236[2]

Cakfem-Mushere is an Afro-Asiatic language cluster spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Dialects are Kadim-Kaban and Jajura.^[1] Mutual intelligibility with Mwaghavul is high.^[3]

Mushere is very close to Mwaghavul.^[3]

Cakfem has two varieties, namely Outer Cakfem and Inner Cakfem. Outer Cakfem is very similar to Mwaghavul, but Inner Cakfem is more divergent, as Mwaghavul speakers have trouble understanding Inner Cakfem.^[3]

Notes

1 2 Cakfem-Mushere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cakfem-Mushere". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
1 2 3 Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.

References

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[e18-1] 1 2 Cakfem-Mushere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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

[Blench2017-3] 1 2 3 Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.