Supporting and celebrating global linguistic diversity
Classification: Afro-Asiatic
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Ngezzim, Ngizmawa, Ngizimanci, Ngo:djin, Ngojin |
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Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West Chadic |
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ISO 639-3 |
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ngi |
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Information from: “Yobe Languages Research Project” . Russell Schuh (2009)
"Ngizim is spoken in Yobe State, Nigeria, in the area to the east and south of Potiskum, the largest city in Yobe State, as well as in Potiskum, which was originally an Ngizim town."
Information from: “An Atlas of Nigerian Languages” (111) . Roger Blench (2012)
"39,200 includes Bade and Ɗuwai (1952 W&B); 25,000 Schuh (1971)"
Hausa
"Borno State, Damaturu LGA"
Information from: “Verb forms and verb aspects in Ngizim” (47-60) . Russell Schuh (1971)
“[Ngizim] is spoken by about 25,000 people in the Northeast State of Nigeria in an area fanning out to the east from Potiskum.”
Information from: “Aspects of Ngizim Syntax” . Russell Schuh (1972)
"Based on records seen at the Roman Catholic mission in Potiskum, Ngizim is estimated to be spoken by about 25,000 people."
"The only document printed in the Ngizim language is Duvu Muya (anonymous, n.d.), a small manual for adult literacy."
Ngizim is spoken in an area fanning out to the east from Potiskum in the Northeast State of Nigeria.
Information from: “Bade / Ngizim vowels and syllable structure” (247-283) . Russell Schuh (1978)
“Ngizim is spoken in an area fanning out to the east from Potiskum"
Information from: “A dictionary of Ngizim” . Russell Schuh (1981) University of California Press
“Ngizim is spoken by perhaps 25,000 people...”
"The only document printed in Ngizim is Duvu Muya (anonymous, n.d.), a small adult literacy manual published by the Gaskiya Corporation of Zaria, Nigeria.”
“Ngizim is spoken... in northeastern Nigeria.”
Information from: “Using dialect geography to determine prehistory: a Chadic case study” (201-250) . Russell Schuh (1981)
“The Duwai and Bade areas center along the Yo river (a major affluent of Lake Chad) and its tributaries. Ngizim is separated from the other languages of the group, lying some 80-100 km. to the south, in the area of Potiskum."
Information from: “Shira, Teshena, Auyo: Hausa's (former) eastern neighbors” (387-435) . Russell Schuh (2001)
“It seems more likely that the ancestors of all the people called "Ngizim" occupied an area to the south of and contiguous to what is now Bade country. The Ngizim of Potiskum either moved south, or were cut off linguistically from the origiinal contiguous Bade-Ngizim homeland by incursions of Kanuri and/or Hausa. Separation left Bade and Ngizim of Potiskum to evolve in different ways."
Information from: “Yobe State, Nigeria as a linguistic area” . Russell Schuh (2005)
Karekare
"Ngizim men typically would have at least one Karekare wife, and Karekare seems to have been the preferred common language in such households, at least before Hausa became dominant. Ngizims—at least Ngizim men—all seemed to speak Karekare when I first went to Potiskum in 1969, whereas few Karekares spoke Ngizim. Children in such households would grow up with Ngizim as the dominant language, inasmuch as the head of the household was Ngizim, he probably had at least one Ngizim wife, and the household was probably in a predominantly Ngizim village or neighborhood. These children, especially those with Karekare mothers, would be competent speakers of Karekare as well. The result would be children speaking Karekare but code-switching with Ngizim, the dominant language of the household and the neighborhood, much like speakers of Yobe language code- switch with Hausa today."
