Shammo languages

Shammo
Jere
Geographic
distribution		Plateau, Bauchi, and Kaduna states, Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologboze1240

The Shammo (Shammɔ) or Jere languages are spoken in north-central Nigeria.[1] They form a subgroup within the East Kainji languages.[2]

A common greeting, Shammɔ, is used in all of the Shammo languages.[2]

  1. ^ Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314323
  2. ^ a b Blench, Roger. 2021. Introduction to the Shammɔ peoples of Central Nigeria.