Ron (Run; also known as Challa, Chala) is an

Afro-Asiatic The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...

language cluster spoken in

Plateau State Plateau State is the twelfth-largest Nigerian state. It is in the centre of the country includes a range of hills surrounding the Jos Plateau, its capital, and the entire plateau itself. Plateau State is described as "The Home of Peace and To ...

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 ...

. Dialects include

Bokkos Bokkos is a Local Government Area in Plateau State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Bokkos at . 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 ...

, Daffo-Mbar-Butura (incl. Mangar), Monguna (Shagawu, 20,000 speakers). Blench (2006) considers these to be separate languages.

Varieties

Blench (2019) lists these language varieties in the Ron (Run) cluster: *Bokkos *Mbar *Daffo–Butura *Manguna *Mangar * Sha Daffo-Mbar-Butura is spoken in Hottom, Maiduna, Hurum, Fanga, Kandik, Faram, Mandung, Mayi, and Josho villages.Blench, Roger M. 2003
Why reconstructing comparative Ron is so problematic
In Wolff, Ekkehard (ed.), ''Topics in Chadic linguistics: papers from the 1st biennial international colloquium on the Chadic language family'' (Leipzig, July 5-8, 2001), 21-42. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

Curiosity

Although modern Ron uses a decimal system, it is well attested that in the past a duodecimal counting system was used.Dr. Uwe Seibert, Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Jos, Nigeria, March 1, 1999

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Notes

References

* Uwe Seibert. 1998. ''Das ron von Daffo (Jos-Plateau, zentralnigeria): Morphologische, syntaktische und textlinguistische strukturen einer westtschadischen sprache''. European University Series, Asian and African Studies 27. Berlin: Peter Lang.

External links

Roger Blench, Ron Comparative WordlistRoger Blench, Dictionary of Lis ma Run (Ron of Bokkos)
West Chadic languages Languages of Nigeria {{Nigeria-stub