Yangkam
[aka Yankam, Basharawa, Bashiri]Classification: Niger-Congo
·critically endangered
Classification: Niger-Congo
·critically endangered
Yankam, Basharawa, Bashiri, Bashar |
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Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Benue-Congo, Plateau |
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Information from: “Endangered Languages in West Africa” (140-162 ch. 7) . Roger Blench (2007) , Matthias Brenzinger · Mouton de Gruyter
"Yangkam is only spoken by people over fifty and all the young people speak Hausa."
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."
"The Yangkam people live in a region west of Bashar town, on the Amper-Bashar road, in Plateau State, Central Nigeria. [...] Yangkam is spoken in some four villages, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam and Kiram."
Information from: “An Atlas of Nigerian Languages” . Roger Blench (2011) Mallam Dendo
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"Yangkam is only spoken by people over fifty and all the young people speak Hausa."
"The local estimate of the number of fluent speakers is 400, and falling every year."
Hausa
"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."
"The Yangkam people live in a region west of Bashar town, on the Amper-Bashar road, in Plateau State, Central Nigeria [...] Yangkam is spoken in some four villages, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam and Kiram"
"There are many hamlets around Bashar town in Wase local Government whose populations are ethnically Yangkam but who no longer speak the language."
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
"Mainly older adults."
Hausa [hau]
"Shifted to Hausa [hau], but retain Bashar identity."
"Plateau state: Kanam, Langtang, and Wase LGAs, on Amper-Bashar road, Tukur, Bayar, Pyaksam, and Kiram villages."