Gbiri-Niragu, also known as Gure-Kahugu, is a
Kainji language of
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, ...
. Speakers are shifting to
Hausa.
Tugbiri is the name of the language of the Gbiri people, and is spoken in and around the village of
Gure in
Lere LGA, southern
Kaduna State
Kaduna (, جىِهَر كَدُنا; مدينة كدونا; , ; ) is a States of Nigeria, state in the northwest geopolitical zone of Nigeria. The state capital is its namesake, the city of Kaduna (city), Kaduna, which was the List of Nigerian ...
.
Niragu speakers live directly to the north of Tugbiri speakers.
Numerals
Gbiri-Niragu has, or had, a
duodecimal
The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base. In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is i ...
number system
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.
Matsushita, 'Decimal vs. Duodecimal'
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References
East Kainji languages
Languages of Nigeria
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