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Hasha language

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Native to
  
Nigeria

Native speakers
  
3,000 (1999)

Glottolog
  
hash1238

Region
  
Nassarawa State

ISO 639-3
  
ybj

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau Alumic Hasha–Sambe Hasha

Hasha a.k.a. Yashi is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It has an idiosyncratic system of reduplicating the first syllable of noun stems, apparently under the influence of the Chadic language Sha.

References

Hasha language Wikipedia