Ningye
Native toNigeria
RegionKaduna state
Native speakers
10,000 (2008)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3nns Deprecated, merged into Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu nbr effective 2019-01-25
Glottologning1271
ELPNingye

Ningye is a Plateau language of Nigeria.

Ningye is spoken by 3,000 to 4,000 people in Ningeshen Kurmi village, Kaduna State, Nigeria. The village is situated about 19 kilometers south of Fadan Karshi on the Akwanga road.[2]

Ethnologue considers it as a dialect of Numana-Nunku-Gbantu-Numbu.[3]

References

  1. Ningye at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Blench, Roger. M. 1999. Field trip to record the status of some little-known Nigerian languages. Ogmios, 11:11:14.
  3. Numana at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon

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