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East or Southeast Plateau are a "probable" group of three
Plateau languages The forty or so Plateau languages are a tentative group of Benue–Congo languages spoken by 15 million people on the Jos Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nasarawa State and in adjacent areas in central Nigeria. Berom and Eggon have the most speake ...
spoken in
Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
. Fyam and Horom are closely related; connections to Barkul (Bo-Rukul) are more problematic.


Names and locations

Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).


Footnotes


References

*Blench (2008
''Prospecting proto-Plateau''
Manuscript.


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