Ron languages

Ron
Ron–Fyer
Geographic
distribution
Mangu LGA, Plateau State, Nigeria
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Proto-languageProto-Ron
Subdivisions
  • Ron
  • Fyer
Language codes
Glottologwest2716
West Chadic per Newman (1977)
Main Chadic-speaking peoples in Nigeria

The Ron, Ronic or Ron–Fyer languages, group A.4 of the West Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, are spoken in Plateau State, north-central Nigeria.

The Ron languages have undergone extensive influence from Tarok.[1]

  1. ^ Longtau, Selbut (25–26 March 2004). Some Historical Inferences from Lexical Borrowings and Traditions of Origins in the Tarokoid/Chadic Interface. International Symposium on Endangered Languages in Contact: Nigeria’s Plateau Languages. Hamburg: Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg.