Loo, or Shụŋọ, is an
Adamawa language
The Adamawa languages are a putative family of 80–90 languages scattered across the Adamawa Plateau in central Africa, in Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Chad, spoken altogether by only one and a half million people (as of 19 ...
of
Nigeria. It is one of the more than 500
native languages spoken in that country. As of 1992, the approximate number of Loo speakers was 8,000.
[ Blench, Roger. ]
An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
', pp. xii and 58 (Third Edition, 2012). Those speakers reside in parts of
Gombe State and also the adjacent state to the south:
Taraba State.
References
Languages of Nigeria
Bambukic languages
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