Tala is a language from the West Chadian branch of the Chadic language family.[2][3] The language is spoken in the central regions of Nigeria, and had approximately 1000 native speakers in 1993. The language is unwritten.
| Tala | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Bauchi State |
Native speakers | (1000 cited 1993)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tak |
| Glottolog | tala1295 |
| ELP | Tala |
Classification edit
Tala is part of the Guruntum (Gurdung according to the work of Roger Blench) group of the South Bauchi language group, and is thus similar to the Guruntum, Tala, and Zangwal languages.[4]
General Information edit
The Ju language is spoken in the villages of Kuka and Talan Kasa, which lie to the south of Bauchi. The village is in the Bauchi local government area in the state of Bauchi.[1]
Tala shares language borders mosty with other West Chadic languages; Zangwal to the west, Ju to the southwest, Guruntum to the southeast, and the Gera language to the north and northeast. To the south, Ju borders the sprachbund of the Dulbu language.[1]
In 1993, Ethnologue estimated the number of speakers of the language at a thousand,[1] and the Joshua Project has estimated the number of speakers at 2,000.[citation needed]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Tala at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Blench, Robert (2006). "The Afro-Asiatic Languages. Classification and Reference List" (PDF). Roger Blench Website. Publications. pp. 4–6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-23.
- ^ Blench, Robert (2012). "An Atlas of Nigerian Langages" (PDF) (3rd ed.). Roger Blench Website. Publications. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-28.
- ^ Blench, Roger (2021-01-01). "West Chadic classification 2021". Academia.
External links edit
- "OLAC resources in and about the Tala language". Language-archives.org. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Language: Tala". Glottolog. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Archived from the original on 2016-12-03.