Kirfi

E222787

Kirfi is a West Chadic language spoken in parts of northern Nigeria.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kirfi canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf West Chadic language
language
country Nigeria
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Kirfi people
hasAlternativeName Kirfi (language)
Kirifawa
Kirifi
hasContactLanguage English
Hausa
hasGlottologCode kirf1234
hasGlottologName Kirfi self-link
hasLinguisticTypology SVO word order
agglutinative language
tonal language
hasNeighbouringLanguage Bole
Hausa
Ngamo
hasResourceType grammatical sketch
phonological description
wordlist
isMinorityLanguageIn Nigeria
ISO639-3Code kks
languageBranch Chadic languages
surface form: Chadic
languageFamily Afroasiatic
languageSubbranch West Chadic
primaryAreaOfUse Bauchi State
region West Africa
spokenIn Northern Nigeria
surface form: northern Nigeria
spokenInLocalGovernmentArea Kirfi Local Government Area
subclassOf Afroasiatic language
Chadic language
usedBy Kirfi people
usedInDomain home
local trade
oral literature
traditional religion
usedInEducation informal community education
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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

Kirfi hasGlottologName Kirfi self-link