Gera language

*Fyandigeri*^[2]
Fyandigeri
Person	laa Fyandigeri
People	Fyandigeri
Language	Fyandigere

Gera
Gera
Fyandigere
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Bauchi State
Native speakers	(200,000 cited 1995)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Bole–Tangale (A.2) Bole (North) Gera; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gew
Glottolog	gera1246

Gera (also known as Gerawa or Fyandigeri) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. Speakers are shifting to Hausa.^[1] Speakers refer to themselves as Fyandigeri (singular: laa Fyandigeri, plural Fyandigeri).^[2]

There are at least 30 villages. Many Gera villages no longer speak the language. A 2018 survey suggested there are only 4 villages where the language is being passed on to children.^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Gera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b ^c Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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[e18-1] Gera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[BlenchAtlas4-2] Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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