Hõne | |
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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Gombe State and Taraba State |
Native speakers | (7,000 cited 1999) [1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
juh |
Glottolog |
hone1235 |
ELP | Hõne |
Hõne is a Jukunoid language spoken in Gombe State and Taraba State, Nigeria. Speakers of the two dialects, Pindiga and Gwana, can only understand each other with difficulty. [1] It belongs to the Jukun Wapan (Kororofa) language cluster. [2]
Hõne is spoken in Akko, Billiri, Shongom, and Karim-Lamido LGAs. Ethnologue (22nd ed.) lists villages as: