Hasha language

Hasha
Yashi
Native to Nigeria
Region Nassarawa State
Native speakers
3,000 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ybj
Glottolog hash1238[2]

Hasha AKA Yashi is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It has an idiosyncratic system of reduplicating the first syllable of noun stems, apparently under the influence of the Chadic language Sha.

References

  1. ↑ Hasha at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Hasha". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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