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Classification: Afro-Asiatic
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Paa, Pa'anci, Fucaka, Fuuceka, Afa, Afawa, Afanci, Pala, Pa'awa, Fa'awa, Foni |
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Afro-Asiatic, Chadic, West Chadic |
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ISO 639-3 |
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Information from: “International Encyclopedia of Linguistics” . Frawley, William · Oxford University Press
Information from: “International Encyclopedia of Linguistics” . Frawley, William · Oxford University Press
Hausa
"Speakers are shifting to Hausa."
Information from: “Gender in Pa'a” (167-174) . Margaret Gardner Skinner (1977) , Paul Newman and Roxana Ma Newman ·
“Pa’a, called fuucəka by speakers of the language, is spoken by some 20,000 Nigerians concentrated in eight villages southeast of Ningi, Bauchi State."
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)” . Paul M. Lewis; Gary F. Simons; and Charles D. Fennig · Dallas, Texas: SIL International
Hausa
English
"Shifting to Hausa."
Information from: “The two fathers of seven children and the Kano man: An analysis of a Pa'a oral narrative” (51-74) . Margaret Gardner Skinner (1974)
“The Pa’a language is a member of the North Bauchi Chadic group spoken by some 20,000 Nigerians in about eight villages to the south, east and west of Ningi, North East State."
Information from: “Specimens of the Pa'a ("Afa") and Warja languages with notes on the tribes of Ningi Chiefdom (Bauchi Province, Northern Nigeria)” (194-205) . Hermann Jungraithmayr (1966)
“The Pa’awa are among the major tribes. They occupy the villages of Tiffi, Guda, Ari, and some parts of Kafin Zaki and Kwalangwadi.”
Information from: “Aspects of Pa'anci Grammar” . Margaret Gardner Skinner (1979)
“There is some non-linguistic, ethnographic material on the Pa'a to be found in Gunn and Temple…Their population estimates are at some variance with my own, indicating a decline from Temple's 1915 estimate of 10,010 to the Native Authority Tribal Census (Bauchi Division) of 1949- 50, which showed a Pa'a population of merely 2,236, though Gunn later admits that census to be highly inaccurate, probably limited to tax-paying adult males.”
“Although there has been a Sudan Interior Mission (now ECWA, Evangelical Church of West Africa) Church in Tiffi for several decades, no evidence could be found of any attempt to translate the scriptures into Pa'anci; the church presently uses Hausa for all its services.”
“Pa'anci is a Chadic (Afro-Asiatic) language spoken by some 20,000 Nigerians living in an area south and west of Ningi in the present Bauchi State of Nigeria. The largest of the Pa'a villages is Tiffi, immediately southwest of Ningi, but the villages of Guda, Ari, Tabala and Rabina are predominantly inhabited by Pa'anci speakers, with others in Kwarangwacci, Kafin Zaki, Kalasu, Zakara, Wushi, Zida, Njaken, Kuoera, Kici, Bunga, Gada, and Ningi itself."