Longuda language

Lunguda
Nyà Núngúrá
Native toNigeria
RegionAdamawa State, Gombe State
EthnicityLunguda people
Native speakers
(40,000 cited 1973)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lnu
Glottologlong1389
Nungura[2]
PeopleNùngùrábà
LanguageNyà Núngúrá

Lunguda (Nʋngʋra) is a Niger–Congo language spoken in Nigeria. They settle in the western part of Gongola mainly in and around the hills of the volcanic Lunguda Plateau, Adamawa state. Joseph Greenberg counted it as a distinct branch, G10, within the Adamawa family. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Lunguda was made a branch of the Bambukic languages.[3]

According to the Ethnologue, the current number of speakers is based on an SIL figure of 45,000 from 1973.[1] But recent studies has shown 50,000 in the 2006 census.

Variants of the name Longuda include Languda, Longura, Nunguda, Nungura, Nunguraba.

  1. ^ a b Lunguda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference BlenchAtlas4 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Longuda Group – Nʋngʋra Cluster | ADAMAWA LANGUAGE PROJECTS". www.blogs.uni-mainz.de. Retrieved 2022-01-23.