Mantsi language (Nigeria)

Mantsi
Pyik Mantsi
Pronunciation[pʲìk mántsì]
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Native speakers
(100 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3zns
Glottologmang1416
ELPMangas
Mantsi
Peoplemántsì
Languagepʲìk mántsì

Mantsi (also known as Ma’as or Mangas) is an endangered Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Mangas town in Bauchi State, Nigeria.[1] Blench (2020) reports that it is also called Mantsi. According to Blench, the structure of Mantsi differs significantly from the other South Bauchi languages.[2]

Word lists of Mantsi had previously been published in Kiyoshi Shimizu's (1978) South Bauchi survey, which first mentioned the existence of the language.[3] An unpublished word list was also recorded by Ronald Cosper (n.d.).[4]

  1. ^ a b Mantsi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger. 2020. An introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria.
  3. ^ Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1978. The Southern Bauchi Group of Chadic Languages: A survey report. Coll. Africana Marburgensia, n° 2 (Special Issue).
  4. ^ Cosper, Ronald n.d. Wordlist of South Bauchi (West Chadic) languages ; Boghom, Mangas, Buli, Dott, Geji, Jimi, Polci, Sayanci, Zul. ms.