Cibak (variously rendered ''Chibuk, Chibok, Chibbak, Chibbuk, Kyibaku, Kibbaku, Kikuk'') 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 ...
language spoken by about 200,000 who are majorly
Kibaku people in Nigeria.
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Cibak is spoken in ]Askira/Uba
Askira/Uba is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Askira.
It has an area of 2,362 km and a population of 138,091 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of the area is 601.
One of the villag ...
, Chibok
Chibok is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria, located in the south of the state. It has its headquarters in the town of Chibok.
Landscape
It has an area of 1,350 km²
Population
It has a population of 66,105 at the 2006 c ...
and Damboa
Damboa is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Damboa.
It has an area of 6,219 km² and had a population of 233,200 at the 2006 census.
The postal code of the area is 601.
The original settler ...
local government areas in the south of Borno State
Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon, its northern borde ...
in Nigeria. The majority of speakers are Christians (about 92 %); most of the schoolgirls abducted in the 2014 Chibok kidnapping
On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 mostly Christian female students aged from 16 to 18 were kidnapped by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram from the Government Girls Secondary School at the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Pri ...
by Boko Haram were Cibak-speakers and Christians.
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Biu-Mandara languages
Languages of Nigeria
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