Gbantu language

Gbantu
	Gwantu
Native to	Nigeria
Native speakers	40,000, including Nunku (2008)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Ninzic Gbantu; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Gbantu; Numana; Numbu; Janda;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nbr
Glottolog	numa1252[2]

Gbantu (Gwantu) is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Gwantu is the name of the principal dialect; the others are Numana, Janda and Numbu. Nunku is apparently a dialect of Mada, not Gbantu.

References

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

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

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