Berom language

Spoken in

Niger -Congo

• Atlantic - Congo Benue - Congo Plateau languages

Bom

The language Berom (ISO code bom, also referred to as afango, Berum, birom, cen Berom, chenberom, gbang, kibbo, kibbun, kibo, kibyen and shoshone ) is a platoide language, and by about 300,000 people in Nigeria's Plateau State ( nincut dialect) in parts of Kaduna and Bauchi is spoken.

Berom was once than to the southern subgroup of the plateau languages ​​classified as belonging, and now forms a special subset of beromischen languages ​​with two other languages ​​, the Eten [ etx ] and the sound - Zwall [ sha ], both from Nigeria.

There are several dialects of the language, namely gyell - kuru - vwang ( ngell - kuru - vwang ), fan - foron - heikpang, Bachit - gashish, du- ropp -rim, hoss, cen (2,000 speakers) and nincut ( Aboro, boro - Aboro; 5,000 speakers in 8 villages ). The language itself is suffering from marginalization by the official language English, which is the only language of instruction in the country.