• Ameaçado

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• <4,000

  Falantes nativos ao redor do mundo

MAIS INFORMAÇÕES SOBRE A VITALIDADE

"Ningye is still regularly spoken at present."

OUTROS IDIOMAS USADOS PELA COMUNIDADE

• Numana; Gwantu; Hausa; English

COMENTÁRIOS SOBRE O CONTEXTO DO IDIOMA

"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."

LUGARES

Ningeshen Kurmi village, Kaduna State, Nigeria

• Ameaçado

  60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 4,000-5,000

  Falantes nativos ao redor do mundo
• MAIS INFORMAÇÕES SOBRE NÚMERO DE FALANTES

  "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."

DATA DAS INFORMAÇÕES

1998

TRANSMISSÃO

OUTROS IDIOMAS USADOS PELA COMUNIDADE

• Numana

• Gwantu

• Hausa

• English

COMENTÁRIOS SOBRE O CONTEXTO DO IDIOMA

"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."

LUGARES

Nigeria

DESCRIÇÃO DA LOCALIDADE

"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."