Lunguda (Nʋngʋra) is a Niger–Congo language of Nigeria. They settle western part of Gongola mainly in and around the hills of the volcanic Lunguda Plateau, Adamawa state.

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counted it as a distinct branch, G10, of the Adamawa family. When Blench (2008) broke up Adamawa, Lunguda was made a branch of the

Bambukic languages The Bambukic Trans-Benue or Yungur–Jen languages form a proposed branch of the provisional Savanna languages, a reduced form of the Waja–Jen branch of the old Adamawa languages family (G7, G9, G10). They are spoken in north eastern Nigeria. T ...

. The current number of speakers is according to ''Ethnologue'' cites an SIL figure of 45,000 from 1973. But recent studies has shown 50,000 in the 2006 census. Variants of the name ''Longuda'' include ''Languda, Longura, Nunguda, Nungura, Nunguraba''.

Dialects

In the Adamawa Languages Project website, Kleinewillinghöfer (2014) lists five dialects in the Longuda dialect cluster. *Longuda/Lunguda of

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and Wala Lunguda *Nʋngʋra(ma) of Cerii, Banjiram *Longura(ma) of Thaarʋ (Koola) *Nʋngʋra(ma) of Gwaanda (Nyuwar) *Nʋngʋra(ma) of Deele (Jessu) Partly due to

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customs, there is considerable lexical diversity among Longuda dialects.

Geography

The Lunguda settle in the northeastern part of Nigeria, mostly in Guyuk, Adamawa state in Guyuk LGA, Balanga LGA of Gombe state and some parts of Borno. They have approximately 504,000 according to 2006 population census.

Names and locations

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

References

External links

Longuda
(Adamawa Languages Project) {{Niger-Congo branches Languages of Nigeria Bambukic languages