Lopa language

Lopa
Rerang
Native to Nigeria
Region Niger State
Native speakers
 5,000 (1996)[1]
Dialects
  • Ollop
  • Urcibar (Shuba)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lop
Glottolog lopa1238[2]
Rerang
Person dɔ̀ɾìɾã́ŋ
People òːɾìɾã́ŋ
Language òlːèɾã́ŋ (Olleran)
Ollop
Person dɔ̀ɾóp
People òːɾɔ́p
Language òlːɔ́p (Ollop)
Urcibar (Shuba)
Person dɔ̀tʃíbár
People òːtʃíbár
Language ɘ̀ɹtʃíbár (Urcibar)

Lopa (Rop) is a minor Kainji language of Nigeria. Ethnic Lopa neighbouring the Busa language have shifted to that language.

Lopa has two dialects: Rop (Ollop) and Urcibar (Shuba). Additionally, there is a native name for both dialects as a whole: Rerang, which is unusual in West Kainji languages.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lopa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lopa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Roger Blench (11 May 2012). "THE KAINJI LANGUAGES of NORTHWESTERN and CENTRAL NIGERIA" (PDF). p. 9.


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