Angas

E222780

Angas is a major West Chadic language spoken primarily in central Nigeria.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Angas canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Chadic language
West Chadic language
language
alternativeName Ngas
belongsToLinguisticArea Jos Plateau
surface form: Jos Plateau area
continent Africa
country Nigeria
endangermentStatus vigorous (regional language)
glottocode anga1313
glottologName Angas self-link
hasBibleTranslation partial
hasDialect Hill Angas
Plain Angas
hasLinguisticFeature noun class-like gender distinctions
rich verbal morphology
tone language
hasMorphosyntacticFeature prepositions rather than postpositions
subject-verb agreement
hasOrthographicVariation Angas self-link
Ngas
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant length contrasts
contrastive tone
hasStandardizedOrthography yes
iso639-3Code anc
languageBranch West Chadic
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic
languageGroup Angas languages
languageSubfamily Chadic
linguisticClassificationDetail West Chadic A.3
macrolanguage none
neighboringLanguages Goemai
Mupun
Mwaghavul
Tarok
primaryWordOrder SVO
regionOfUse Mangu
surface form: Mangu area

Pankshin area
spokenIn Nigeria
spokenInRegion central Nigeria
spokenInState Kaduna State
Plateau State
usedByEthnicGroup Ngas people
usedInDomain local education
local media
religious practice
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Angas glottologName Angas self-link
Angas hasOrthographicVariation Angas self-link