Yebu language
Savanna language spoken in Nigeria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yebu (language name: Yiin Yebu;[2] also known as Awak or Awok) is one of the Savanna languages of Kaltungo LGA in Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria.
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Yebu | |
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Awak | |
Native to | Kaltungo LGA, Gombe State, eastern Nigeria |
Native speakers | (6,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | awo |
Glottolog | awak1250 |
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There are five distinct dialects corresponding to each of the original five settlements that had been spoken on the Awak Hill. Yebu is currently spoken in the plains rather than in the speakers' ancestral territory of Awak Hill.[3]