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Gbantu
Gwantu
Native toNigeria
Native speakers
40,000, including Nunku (2008)[1]
Dialects
  • Gbantu
  • Numana
  • Numbu
  • Janda
Language codes
ISO 639-3nbr
Glottolognuma1252

Gbantu (Gwantu) is a dialect cluster of Plateau languages in Nigeria. Gwantu is the name of the principal dialect; the others are Numana, Janda and Numbu. Nunku is apparently a dialect of Mada, not Gbantu.

References

  1. ^ Gbantu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)