Miya language
| Miya | |
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| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Bauchi State |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1995)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| ISO 639-3 | mkf |
| Glottolog | miya1266 |
Miya (Miyawa) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Bauchi State, Nigeria.[1] It is also referred to as "vә́na mίy" translating to "mouth of miy".[2] There are approximately 5,000 speakers of Miya . Also related to languages such as Hausa, which the Miya people sometimes borrow from.
Miya's verb morphology is complicated. the verbs are suprasegmental, where the masculine first person is marked with a high tone .
Miya's noun class is divided up between feminine and masculine, as well as a divider on morphology between animate and inanimate nouns.
Notes
- ^ a b Miya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 1941-2016., Schuh, Russell G., (1998). A grammar of Miya. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 0520098218. OCLC 38595440.
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Further reading
- Russell G. Schuh. 1998. A Grammar of Miya. University of California Publications in Linguistics 130. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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