"Yangkam is only spoken by people over fifty and all the young people speak Hausa."

"Speakers are quite content with the switch to Hausa. [...] Members of the ethnic group are very proud of their history and identity, but do not associate them with retention of the language."

"All more than fifty years old."

"Mainly older adults."

"Shifted to Hausa [hau], but retain Bashar identity."

"The local estimate of the number of fluent speakers is 400, and falling every year."

"Yangkam is something of a paradox; members of the ethnic group are very proud of their history and identity, but do not associate that with retention of the language... A typescript of the history of Bashar circulates in the district, larded with non-Hausa names and words but Yangkam do not draw the conclusion that there is any link between this identity and the language they formerly spoke. Although Yangkam has nearly disappeared as a language, the populations who formerly spoke it are likely to retain Basherawa and Basheranci as their name for the people and language as long as they retain a separate identity."