Cakfem-Mushere is an
Afro-Asiatic
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language cluster spoken in
Bokkos
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It has an area of 1,682 km and a population of 178,454 at the 2006 census. Ron languages are the indigenous languages spoken in Bok ...
LGA,
Plateau State
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Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and To ...
,
Nigeria
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. Dialects are Kadim-Kaban and Jajura.
[ ]Mutual intelligibility
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with Mwaghavul is high.[Blench, Roger. 2017]
Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages
Mushere is very close to Mwaghavul.
Cakfem has two varieties, namely Outer Cakfem and Inner Cakfem. Outer Cakfem is very similar to Mwaghavul, but Inner Cakfem is more divergent, as Mwaghavul speakers have trouble understanding Inner Cakfem. According to Blench in 2019, the Cakfem people have thirteen villages, with Tim as the main settlement. Hausa is frequently used by the younger generation.
References
West Chadic languages
Languages of Nigeria
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