Gade language

Gade
Native toNigeria
RegionNasarawa state
Native speakers
72,000 (2000)[1]
Niger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3ged
Glottologgade1242

Gade (Gad) is a Gadoid language of Nigeria. Glottolog 4.7 (2022) classifies it as an independent branch of Benue-Congo rather than as a Nupoid language of the Gade people.

There exist Baponu dialect, northern and southern dialects of Gade, which are mutually comprehensible.

Distribution

Ethnologue lists the following locations:

References

  1. ^ Gade at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)