Nyankpa language

Nyankpa
Person	òŋamkpa
People	àŋamkpa
Language	nyankpá

Nyankpa
	Yeskwa
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Kaduna State, Nassarawa State
Native speakers	70,000 (2012)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Central ? Koroic Nyankpa; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yes
Glottolog	yesk1239[2]

Nyankpa, or Yeskwa, is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It sometimes appears in the literature as Nyenkpa, which is a dialect.

The main dialects are Panda, Tattara, Bede and Gitata (Buzi). The prestige dialect is Tattara, which is said to be the "standard form" of the language.^[3]

References

↑ Nyankpa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yeskwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Roger Blench (20 May 2009). "The Nyankpa [= Yeskwa] language of Central Nigeria" (PDF). p. 1.

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

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

[3] Roger Blench (20 May 2009). "The Nyankpa [= Yeskwa] language of Central Nigeria" (PDF). p. 1.