Firan
[alias Fəran, Frisian, Faran]Klassifizierung: Niger-Congo
·gefährdet
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Gefährdet
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~3000
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"There are probably about three thousand speakers of Fəran, although the scattered nature of their compounds makes this difficult to estimate. Immediate observation suggests that most children grow up speaking the language and that it is surviving under pressure from its larger neighbours, Berom and Iten, as well as the vehicular language, Hausa."
- DATUM DER INFORMATION
- 2003
- VERBREITUNG
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- ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN
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Berom; Iten; Hausa
- ORTE
- Plateau State, Nigeria
- ORTSBESCHREIBUNG
"...spoken in Kwakwi village in Plateau State, Nigeria [...] Kwakwi is situated west of the main road from Jos to Akwanga, directly after Tahoss on the road leading to Ganawuri. The Fəran divide their settlement into eight distinct wards, but in reality the compounds are extremely scattered and this is a social and political distinction rather than a reflection of nucleated settlements."