Lau Laka language

Not to be confused with Laka language or Laka language (Mbum).
For the Northeast Caucasian language called "Lak", see Lak language.
Lau Laka
Laka
Native toNigeria
RegionLau LGA, Taraba State
Language codes
ISO 639-3lak (deprecated)[1]
Glottologlaka1252
IETFksp-NG

Laka or Lau is a Central Sudanic language spoken in Nigeria. It is most closely related to Kabba Laka of Chad. The Hausa refer to the Laka people of Lau as Lakawa. The language was only recently documented in the mid-2010s, and had been previously misclassified as a Mbum language along with Lau.[2][3]

  1. ^ Still misclassified in Ethnologue (22nd ed.) and Glottolog 4.1.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Idiatov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.