Lopa language

Lopa
Rerang
Native toNigeria
RegionNiger State
Native speakers
(5,000 cited 1996)[1]
Dialects
  • Ollop
  • Urcibar (Shuba)
Language codes
ISO 639-3lop
Glottologlopa1238
Rerang
Persondɔ̀ɾìɾã́ŋ
Peopleòːɾìɾã́ŋ
Languageòlːèɾã́ŋ (Olleran)
Ollop
Persondɔ̀ɾóp
Peopleòːɾɔ́p
Languageòlːɔ́p (Ollop)
Urcibar (Shuba)
Persondɔ̀tʃíbár
Peopleòːtʃíbár
Languageɘ̀ɹtʃíbár (Urcibar)

Lopa consists of a pair of minor Kainji languages of Nigeria. The Lopa people neighbouring the Busa language have shifted to that language.

The two languages are Rop (Ollop) and Urcibar (Shuba). Additionally, there is a native name for both dialects as a whole: Rerang, which is unusual in West Kainji languages.[2]

Blench (2019) lists Tsupamini as a related variety.[3]

McGill (2012) also gives the alternate name Oleran for Lopa.[4]

  1. ^ Lopa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger (2012). "The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria" (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  4. ^ McGill, Stuart. 2012. The Kainji languages. Ms, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 30 August 2012.