Pero language

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The Pero language is a West Chadic language of the Afroasiatic family spoken in northeastern Nigeria.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
West Chadic language
language
continent Africa
country Nigeria
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnolinguisticGroup Pero people NERFINISHED
family Afroasiatic
glottologReferenceName Pero NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Per
Pip
Pipero
hasConsonantInventoryType rich consonant inventory
hasDocumentation descriptive linguistic studies
hasDomain local trade and daily communication
oral tradition
hasGlottocode pero1241
hasLinguisticTypology subject–verb–object language
hasMorphologyType fusional-agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
implosive consonants
vowel length distinctions
hasPhylum Afroasiatic NERFINISHED
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Hausa
language shift towards Hausa
hasTone tonal language
hasWordOrder SVO
ISO639-3Code pip
isPartOf Bole–Tangale group NERFINISHED
West Chadic B subgroup NERFINISHED
isSpokenBy several tens of thousands of speakers
languageBranch Chadic NERFINISHED
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
linguisticClassification Afroasiatic > Chadic > West Chadic
majorContactLanguage English language
Hausa language NERFINISHED
nativeTo Bauchi State NERFINISHED
Gombe State NERFINISHED
northeastern Nigeria
neighboringLanguages Bole language NERFINISHED
Hausa language NERFINISHED
Tangale language NERFINISHED
region northeastern Nigeria
spokenIn Nigeria
northeastern Nigeria
subclassOf Chadic language
West Chadic language
usedBy Pero ethnic group
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Tangale hasNeighborLanguage Pero language