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Kuturmi language

Kuturmi, or Ibiro-Ikryo or Ada, is a Plateau language cluster of Kachia LGA, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

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Kuturmi
Native toNigeria
RegionKaduna State
Native speakers
(10,500 cited 2000)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3khj
Glottologkutu1262
ELPKuturmi
Personà-kró2
Peopleā-kró
Languageìkryó
Personóbìrò2
Peopleòbírò
Languageìbìrò

Kuturmi, or Ibiro-Ikryo or Ada, is a Plateau language3 cluster of Kachia LGA, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

Varieties

Varieties are:2

  • Ikryo (Akru, Aclo, Aklo, West Kuturmi), spoken in two villages of Kachia LGA
  • Ibiro (East Kuturmi), spoken in Antara village, Kachia LGA
References

References

  1. Kuturmi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). "Kutumi". Glottolog . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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