Cipu language

Cicipu
Acipanci
'Cicipu'
Native toNigeria
RegionKebbi State, Niger State
Native speakers
(20,000 cited 1995)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3awc
Glottologcici1237
ELPCicipu
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Cicipu is a Kainji language spoken by about 20,000 people in northwest Nigeria. The people call themselves Acipu, and are called Acipawa in Hausa.[2]

Like most Benue–Congo languages, Cicipu has a complex noun class system.[3] It has a fairly complex phonology with lexical and grammatical tone, vowel harmony and nasalisation.

Virtually all Cicipu speakers speak the lingua franca Hausa. Many also speak other nearby languages.

  1. ^ Cicipu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger. "The Kamuku languages". Archived from the original on 20 April 2015.
  3. ^ McGill, Stuart (2007). "The Cipu noun class system". Journal of West African Languages. 34 (2): 51–90.