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Rigwe language

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Rigwe
Nkarigwe
Native toNigeria
RegionPlateau State, Kaduna State
Native speakers
(40,000 cited 1985)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3iri
Glottologirig1241
Rigwe
PeopleNneirigwe
LanguageNkarigwe
ɾȉgʷȅ[2]
Personƴîɾìgʷȅ
Peopleyíɾìgʷȅ
Languageɾȉgʷȅ

The Rigwe language, Nkarigwe, is a Plateau language of Nigeria spoken by the Irigwe people mainly found in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.[3][4]

Rigwe has highly complex phonology.[5]

References

  1. ^ Rigwe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ^ "Irigwe (African people)". Library of Congress. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  4. ^ "Rigwe". Ethnologue. SIL International. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  5. ^ Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixes and number marking in the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 107–172. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314325


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