Hasha language
Hasha | |
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Yashi | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Nassarawa State |
Native speakers | 3,000 (1999)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
ybj |
Glottolog |
hash1238 [2] |
Hasha, also known as Yashi, is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It has an idiosyncratic system of reduplicating the first syllable of noun stems, apparently under the influence of the Chadic language Sha.
References
- ↑ Hasha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Hasha". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.
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