Putai language

Putai (also known as Marghi West) is a nearly extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. The language is dying out and being replaced by Kanuri.[1]

Putai
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State
Native speakers
(undated figure of 50)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3mfl
Glottologputa1243[2]
Linguasphere18-GBB-c

Notes

  1. Putai at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Putai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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