Native to Nigeria Native speakers 200,000 (1995) Glottolog goem1240 | Region Plateau State ISO 639-3 ank | |
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
West Chadic
Bole–Angas
Angas (A.3)
Goemai | ||
Goemai is an Afro-Asiatic (Chadic, West Chadic A) language spoken in the Plateau state of Central Nigeria by approximately 200,000 people. Its speakers refer to themselves and their language as 'Goemai'; in older linguistic, historical and ethnographical literature the term 'Ankwe' has been used to refer to the people.
Goemai is a predominantly isolating language with the subject–verb–object constituent order.
References
Goemai language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA