Shammo Languages

The Shammo (''Shammɔ'') or Jere languages are spoken in north-central Nigeria.Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. They form a subgroup within the East Kainji languages.Blench, Roger. 2021.
Introduction to the Shammɔ peoples of Central Nigeria
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A common greeting, ''Shammɔ'', is used in all of the Shammo languages.

Languages

*''Shammɔ'' languages
**''Zele'' cluster
*** Zele (Jere)
*** Boze (Buji), Panawa (Bujiyel)
**Sanga, Gusu, Moro
** Loro, Bunu (Ribina)
**? Tunzu (Duguza)

References

Further reading

*Gunn, H.D. 1953. ''Peoples of the Plateau Area of Northern Nigeria''. IAI, London.
*Nengel, J.G. 1999. ''Precolonial African intergroup relations in the Kauru and Pengana polities of Central Nigerian Highlands, 1800-1900''. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
*Nengel, J.G. 2019. ''A history of the Boze polity of Plateau State, Nigeria''. Ilishan-Remo, Nigeria: Babcock University Press.
*Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1968. ''An outline of the I-búnú noun class system''. Department of Linguistics and Nigerian Languages, Ibadan University.
*Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1975. ''The language groups in and around Benue-Plateau State''. mimeo. Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, Kano.
*Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1980. Five wordlists with analyses from the Northern Jos Group of Plateau Languages. ''Afrika und Übersee'', 62:4.253-271.
*Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1982a. Ten more wordlists with analyses from the Northern Jos Group of Plateau Languages. ''Afrika und Übersee'', 65:1.97-134.
*Shimizu, Kiyoshi 1982b. Die Nord-Jos-Gruppe der Plateausprachen Nigerias. ''Afrika und Übersee'', 65(2):161-210.
*Temple, Olive 1922. ''Notes on the Tribes, Provinces, Emirates and States of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria''. Argus Printing and Publishing Co. Cape Town.

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