• Threatened

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• <4,000

  Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON VITALITY

"Ningye is still regularly spoken at present."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Numana; Gwantu; Hausa; English

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The Ningye are multilingual; Numana and Gwantu are the main additional languages they speak, but Hausa is widely known and some younger people also speak English."

PLACES

Ningeshen Kurmi village, Kaduna State, Nigeria

• Threatened

  60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 4,000-5,000

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  "The Ningye language is spoken by perhaps 4-5000 speakers at a maximum. Nonetheless, the language does not seem unduly threatened; during the language elicitation session it seemed that many of the children present were able to produce the required lexical items simultaneously with the adults."

DATE OF INFO

1998

TRANSMISSION

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Numana

• Gwantu

• Hausa

• English

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"The Ningye are multilingual; Numana and Gwantu are the main languages they speak, but Hausa is widely known and some younger people also speak English."

PLACES

Nigeria

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

"The main village of the Ningye is Ningeshen Kurmi, some 19 km. south of Fadan Karshi on the Akwanga road. There are three other settlements, Akwankwan, Kobin and Ningeshen Dutse due north of Ningeshen Kurmi but these are all small."