Ron languages
| Ron | |
|---|---|
| Ron–Fyer | |
| Geographic distribution: | Mangu LGA, Plateau State, Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Subdivisions: |
Ron
Fyer
|
 West Chadic per Newman (1977) | |
The Ron, Ronic, or Ron–Fyer, (A.4 West Chadic) languages are a branch of West Chadic languages. They are spoken in the Plateau State of North Nigeria.[1]
Branches
[change | change source]The Ron languages, and their tentative relatioships, are:[2][3]
- Ron
- Fyer, Tambas
- (branch)
- Central Ron
- Daffo-Mbar-Butura
- Bokkos
- Monguna (Shagawu) [perhaps actually closer to Sha]
- Sha
- Mangar
- Mundat–Karfa
- Kulere (Richa)
- Central Ron
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Longtau, Selbut (25 March 2004). Some Historical Inferences from Lexical Borrowings and Traditions of Origins in the Tarokoid/Chadic Interface. International Symposium on Endangered Languages in Contact: Nigeria’s Plateau Languages. Hamburg: Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg.
- ↑ Blench, Roger. Comparative Ron wordlist.
- ↑ Blench, Roger M. 2003. Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic. In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.