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Preferred term

kcgTyap  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Tyap, or Katab, is a regionally important dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria, named after its prestige dialect. Other dialects are Gworok, Atakar, Kacicere, Sholio, Kafancan. According to Blench (2008), Jju, with an even larger number of speakers, appears to be a Tyap variety, though speakers are ethnically distinct.

Entry terms

  • Katab language

ISO 639-3 code

  • kcg

Notation

  • kcg

In other languages

  • tyap

    French

  • Tyap

    German

  • tyap

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • tyap

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/kcg

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