Ɗuwai language

Ɗuwai (Dó:aí) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Jigawa and Kano States, Nigeria.[1]

Ɗuwai
Native toNigeria
RegionYobe State, Kano State
Native speakers
11,000 (2000)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3dbp
Glottologduwa1244[2]

Writing System

Duwai alphabet[3]
ƏABƁC DƊEFG HIJKL MNŊOP RSTU VWYʼYZ
əabɓc dɗefg hijkl mnŋop rstu vwyʼyz

Notes

  1. Ɗuwai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Duwai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Dagona & Schuh 2009, p. vii.


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