Dibo language

Dibo
	Ganagana
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Niger State, Plateau State
Native speakers	(100,000 cited 1992)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta–Niger noi Nupoid Nupe–Gbagyi Dibo; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dio
Glottolog	dibo1247[2]

Dibo, a.k.a. Ganagana, Ganagawa, Zhitako, is a Nupoid language spoken in Nigeria. It is spoken in about twenty villages south of Lapai. There is only 66% cognacy with Central Nupe, out of 200 words.[3]

References

Dibo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dibo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Blench, Roger. 2013. The Nupoid languages of west-central Nigeria: overview and comparative word list.

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

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

[Blench2013-3] Blench, Roger. 2013. The Nupoid languages of west-central Nigeria: overview and comparative word list.