Yebu language

Yebu
Awak
Native toKaltungo LGA, Gombe State, eastern Nigeria
Native speakers
(6,000 cited 1995)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3awo
Glottologawak1250

Yebu (language name: Yiin Yebu;[2] also known as Awak or Awok) is one of the Savanna languages of Kaltungo LGA in Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.

There are five distinct dialects corresponding to each of the original five settlements that had been spoken on the Awak Hill. Yebu is currently spoken in the plains rather than in the speakers' ancestral territory of Awak Hill.[3]

  1. ^ Yebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Blench was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich. 2014. The languages of the Tula – Waja Group. Adamawa Languages Project.