Miya language

Miya
Native toNigeria
RegionBauchi State
Native speakers
(30,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mkf
Glottologmiya1266

Miya (Miyawa) is a Chadic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria.[1] It is also referred to as "vә́na mίy" translating to "mouth of miy".[2] There are approximately 5,000 speakers of Miya. It is related to languages such as Hausa, which the Miya people sometimes borrow from.

  1. ^ a b Miya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Schuh, Russell G. (1998). A grammar of Miya. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 0520098218. OCLC 38595440.