Nyankpa or Yeskwa (nyankpá) is a
Plateau language
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 speakers. ...
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, ...
. It sometimes appears in the literature as ''Nyenkpa'', which is a dialect.
Dialects
The main dialects are Panda, Tattara, Bede and Gitata (Buzi). The
prestige dialect
Prestige in sociolinguistics is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects. Prestige varieties are language or dialect families which are generally c ...
is Tattara, which is said to be the
standard form of the language.
References
External links
Roger Blench: Nyankpa (Yeskwa) language page
Central Plateau languages
Languages of Nigeria
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