Ron languages
West Chadic language group of Nigeria
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]
| Ron | |
|---|---|
| Ron–Fyer | |
| Geographic distribution: | Mangu LGA, Plateau State, Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Subdivisions: |
Ron
Fyer
|
 West Chadic per Newman (1977) | |
Branches
changeThe Ron languages, and their tentative relatioships, are:[2][3]
- Ron
References
change- ↑ 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.