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Hyam
Jabba
Native toNigeria
RegionKaduna State
Native speakers
(100,000 cited 1994)[1]
Dialects
  • Hyam of Nok
  • Sait
  • Dzar
  • Yaat
  • Ankum
Language codes
ISO 639-3jab
Glottologhyam1245

Hyam, or Jabba, is a regionally important dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Hyam of Nok is the prestige dialect. Blench (2008) treats it, Sait, and Dzar as distinct languages, and notes that Yaat and Ankun may also be separate.

References

  1. ^ Hyam at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013) Closed access icon

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