The four scattered and poorly attested Alumic languages form a branch of the
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 speaker ...
of central
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
.
Classification
The following classification is taken from Blench (2008). The languages are not closely related and are morphologically quite diverse due to different
contact situations; given the poor state of their description, their relationship is provisional.
''Ethnologue'' scatters these languages throughout Plateau: Hasha and Sambe with
Eggon Eggon may refer to:
* Eggon language, a language of Nigeria
* Eggon people, an ethnic group mostly based in North Central Nigeria
* Egon, Nigeria, also known as Nassarawa-Eggon, a Local Government Area in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, centred on ...
(Southern branch), and Alumu–Tesu and Toro as two independent branches.
Blench (2019) also includes
Nigbo (extinct).
Names and locations
Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019).
References
*Blench (2008
''Prospecting proto-Plateau'' Manuscript.
External links
*Roger Blench
(wordlists)
{{Platoid languages
Plateau languages